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pewit

DEFINITIONS OF: pewit

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n large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

Synonyms:
green plover, lapwing, peewit
Type of:
plover
any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

n small black-headed European gull

Synonyms:
Larus ridibundus, blackcap, laughing gull, pewit gull
Type of:
gull, sea gull, seagull
mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

n small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

Synonyms:
Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee
Types:
Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee
small flycatcher of western North America
Type of:
New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher
large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
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