wood pewee

wood pewee

n. Either of two small migratory pewees, Contopus virens, which breeds in eastern North America, or C. sordidulus, which breeds in western North America.

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wood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North AmericaContopus virens, pewee, peewee, peewit, pewitNew World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wingContopus, genus Contopus - peweesContopus sordidulus, western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America