WOOD PEWEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood pewee mean? 

• WOOD PEWEE (noun)
  The noun WOOD PEWEE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WOOD PEWEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD PEWEE (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("wood pewee" 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 "wood pewee"):

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

Holonyms ("wood pewee" is a member of...):

Contopus; genus Contopus (pewees)