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Peewit   Listen
noun
peewit  n.  
1.
A large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs; the pewit.
Synonyms: lapwing, green plover, pewit, peevit, peerwit.
2.
Any of several small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Synonyms: pewee, peewee, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens.





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"Peewit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vanellus vulgaris, Bechstein. French, "Vanneau huppe."—The Peewit is a common and rather numerous autumn and winter visitant to all the Islands, though I have never seen it in such large flocks as in some parts of England, especially in Somerset. Those that do come to the Islands appear to take very good ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith


Words linked to "Peewit" :   New World flycatcher, green plover, flycatcher, tyrant bird, lapwing, Contopus virens, genus Contopus, Contopus sordidulus, Contopus, wood pewee


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