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AMERICAN WOODCOCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American woodcock mean?
• AMERICAN WOODCOCK (noun)
The noun AMERICAN WOODCOCK has 1 sense:
1. small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
Familiarity information: AMERICAN WOODCOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
American woodcock; Philohela minor; woodcock snipe
Hypernyms ("American woodcock" is a kind of...):
woodcock (game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)
Holonyms ("American woodcock" is a member of...):
genus Philohela; Philohela (American woodcocks)
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