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WOODCOCK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipeplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("woodcock" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodcock"):

Eurasian woodcock; Scolopax rusticola (short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock)

American woodcock; Philohela minor; woodcock snipe (small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird)

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