Pewee

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various small, olive-gray North American flycatchers of the genus Contopus, especially a wood pewee.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Common American tyrant flycatchers (of the genus Contopus).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phœbe, or Sayornis fuscus). Called also pewit, and phœbe.
  • n. The woodcock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small olivaceous flycatcher of the family Tyrannidæ and genus Contopus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
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    pewit    phœbe   
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