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Definition of Pewee
1. Noun. Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Flycatcher, New World Flycatcher, Tyrant Bird, Tyrant Flycatcher
Group relationships: Contopus, Genus Contopus
Specialized synonyms: Contopus Sordidulus, Western Wood Pewee
Definition of Pewee
1. n. A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phœbe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phœbe.
Definition of Pewee
1. Noun. Common American tyrant flycatchers (of the genus ''Contopus''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pewee
1. a small bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pewee
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pewee
Literary usage of Pewee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882)
"If I show you, pewee Rose will want me to show him ; then there '11 be two babies
to teach. I can't be always helping babies. Go and play two-hole cat with ..."
2. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1840)
"Having inquired of the miller's son, I found that he had killed the old pewee
and four young ones, to make bait for the purpose of catching fish. ..."
3. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"The Wood pewee builds a delicate nest of moss and lichens. ... The Wood pewee
occurs abundantly in summer from Mexico to New Brunswick and from the Atlantic ..."
4. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"Wood pewee : Contopus virens. Upper parts blackish brown ; under parts whitish,
washed with olive ; wing bars whitish; lower mandible pale brown or ..."
5. Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-life in Plain English for Beginners by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"The Wood pewee takes his name from his liking for the woods and his call- note ;
yet he is ... WOOD pewee. " It is usual to call the notes of this bird sad; ..."
6. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Harriet (Mann) Miller, Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"His dress is about the same, and he catches his flies in pewee fashion, ...
The Eastern wood pewee has a low, sweet voice, of which one cannot get tired. ..."
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