wood pewee
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wood pewee
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
Example Sentences
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The idea is cute and corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee.
From Time Magazine Archive
“How would you know about a wood pewee in your business?”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The wood pewee builds a neat, compact socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
The wood pewee and the kingbird succeed, I think, in driving him away; but the vireos and warblers, being so much smaller, suffer greatly from his depredations.
From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
The flycatchers are well represented in the Park, there being no fewer than five species; the least flycatcher, wood pewee, phœbe, crested flycatcher, and kingbird.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
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