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PEEWIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

Synonyms:

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)

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

Contopus sordidulus; western wood pewee (small flycatcher of western North America)

Holonyms ("peewit" is a member of...):

Contopus; genus Contopus (pewees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

Synonyms:

green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

Holonyms ("peewit" is a member of...):

genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)

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