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Nightjar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A goatsucker, especially Caprimulgus europaeus of Europe, having gray and brown mottled plumage with long, slender white wings and a short bill.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of various medium-sized nocturnal birds of the family Caprimulgidae, that feed predominantly on moths and other large flying insects.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of goatsucker.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A bird, Caprimulgus europæus, of the family Caprimulgidæ.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects

Word Usage

"Our nightjar was a few metres away, but she betrayed no anxiety except to keep her pale lids fractionally open so that we could see a third of her liquid dark eyes."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

caprimulgiform bird

Variant

goatsucker

Hyponym

phalaenoptilus nuttallii caprimulgus europaeus mosquito hawk caprimulgus carolinensis caprimulgus vociferus

Same Context

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