About The Word Pewit
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Pewit
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What's The Definition Of Pewit?
[n] small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
[n] large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [n] small black-headed European gull Synonyms | Synonyms for Pewit: blackcap | Contopus virens | green plover | lapwing | Larus ridibundus | laughing gull | peewee | peewit | pewee | pewit gull | wood pewee Related Terms | Find terms related to Pewit: See Also | Contopus | Contopus sordidulus | flycatcher | genus Contopus | genus Larus | genus Vanellus | gull | Larus | New World flycatcher | plover | sea gull | seagull | tyrant bird | tyrant flycatcher | Vanellus | western wood pewee Pewit In Webster's Dictionary \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit,
D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The lapwing.
(b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema
ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}.
(c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.]
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