Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Peewit   Listen
Peewit

noun
1.
Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.  Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit.
2.
Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.  Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Peewit" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Kayrawan" which is still the common name for curlew, the peewit and plover being called (onomatopoetically) "Bibat" and in Marocco Yahudi, certain impious Jews having been turned into the Vanellus Cristatus which still wears the black skullcap ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Peewit" :   plover, Contopus, western wood pewee, tyrant flycatcher, New World flycatcher, genus Vanellus, genus Contopus, Vanellus, Contopus sordidulus, tyrant bird, flycatcher


Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com