pewit

pe·wit also pee·wit  (pwt, pyt)

n.

See lapwing.

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[Imitative of its call.]

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pewit [ˈpiːwɪt]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for lapwing

[imitative of the bird's cry]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pewit - small black-headed European gull     Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull, blackcap sea gull, seagull, gull - mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs genus Larus, Larus - type genus of the Laridae
	2.	pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs green plover, lapwing, peewit plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers genus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwings
	3.	pewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America Contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, peewit New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing Contopus, genus Contopus - pewees Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America