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peewit

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pee·wit  (pwt, pyt)
n.
Variant of pewit.

peewit [ˈpiːwɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for lapwing
[imitative of its call]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.peewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurspeewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
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
2.peewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North Americapeewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America
Translations
peewit [ˈpiːwɪt] Navefría f
peewit
nKiebitz m
peewit [ˈpiːˌwɪt] npavoncella


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Here you may find nests of the strong down partridge and peewit, but take care that the keeper isn't down upon you; and in the middle of it is an old cromlech, a huge flat stone raised on seven or eight others, and led up to by a path, with large single stones set up on each side.
As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero.
Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.
 
 
 
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