PEWIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pewit mean? 

• PEWIT (noun)
  The noun PEWIT has 3 senses:

1. small black-headed European gull

2. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

3. small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

  Familiarity information: PEWIT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEWIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small black-headed European gull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blackcap; Larus ridibundus; laughing gull; pewit; pewit gull

Hypernyms ("pewit" is a kind of...):

gull; sea gull; seagull (mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs)

Holonyms ("pewit" is a member of...):

genus Larus; Larus (type genus of the Laridae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit

Hypernyms ("pewit" is a kind of...):

plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

Holonyms ("pewit" is a member of...):

genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee

Hypernyms ("pewit" is a kind of...):

flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pewit"):

Contopus sordidulus; western wood pewee (small flycatcher of western North America)

Holonyms ("pewit" is a member of...):

Contopus; genus Contopus (pewees)