noun
small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
• Syn: ↑pewee, ↑peewee, ↑peewit, ↑pewit, ↑Contopus virens
• Hypernyms: ↑New World flycatcher, ↑flycatcher, ↑tyrant flycatcher, ↑tyrant bird
• Hyponyms: ↑western wood pewee, ↑Contopus sordidulus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Contopus, ↑genus Contopus
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noun : a small tyrant flycatcher (Contopus virens) of eastern No. America that is dark olive-gray on the back, grayish olive on the breast and sides, and yellowish white on the belly and that has a very plaintive note resembling the syllables pee-a-wee; also : a related bird (C. sordidulus) that inhabits western No. America
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either of two small North American flycatchers, the western Contopus sordidulus or the eastern C. virens. Also wood-pewee.
[1800-10, Amer.]
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wood pewee,
a small flycatcher of eastern North America with a plaintive call suggesting its name; pewee.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.