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pewee
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pewee has 1 sense
- pewee(n = noun.animal) contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America; Array is a kind of flycatcher, new world flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher
is a member of contopus, genus contopus
has particulars: contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee
CIDE DICTIONARY
pewee, n. [So called from its note.].
- A common American tyrant flycatcher (
Sayornis phœbe , orSayornis fuscus ). Called alsopewit , andphœbe . [1913 Webster] - The woodcock. [1913 Webster]
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