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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]
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Noun1.peewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurspeewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
green plover, lapwing, pewit
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
Contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, pewit
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
Translations
peewit [ˈpiːwɪt] N → avefría f
peewit
n → Kiebitz m
peewit [ˈpiːˌwɪt] n → pavoncella
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