Definition of pewit Pewit
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We found 8 definitions of pewit from 4 different sources.
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What does pewit mean?
WordNet
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| pewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | ||
| pewee, peewee, peewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens | ||
| new world flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | ||
| contopus, genus contopus pewees | ||
| pewit - small black-headed European gull | ||
| laughing gull, blackcap, pewit gull, Larus ridibundus | ||
| sea gull, seagull, gull mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | ||
| pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | ||
| lapwing, green plover, peewit | ||
| plover any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pewit (n.)
The lapwing. - pewit (n.)
The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing. - pewit (n.)
The pewee.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pewit
pē′wit, n. the lapwing, a bird with a black head and crest, common in moors.—Also Pē′wet, Pee′wit. [Imit.; cf. Dut. piewit or kiewit.]
Part of speech
🔤- pewit, noun, singular of pewits.
