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willet

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Wil=let

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun willet has 1 sense

willet(n = noun.animal) catoptrophorus semipalmatus - large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts; Array

is a kind of tattler

is a member of catoptrophorus, genus catoptrophorus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

willet, n.

A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew. [1913 Webster]

Carolina willet, the Hudsonian godwit.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

willet, n. (pl. same) a large N. American wader, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus.

Etymology

pill-will-willet, imit. of its cry

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