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GENUS CONTOPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Contopus mean? 

GENUS CONTOPUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CONTOPUS has 1 sense:

1. peweesplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS CONTOPUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS CONTOPUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pewees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Contopus; genus Contopus

Hypernyms ("genus Contopus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Contopus"):

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)

Holonyms ("genus Contopus" is a member of...):

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)


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