Old World bird

• Plover named for its call
• Shrill-voiced cousin of a plover
• Northern lapwing
• Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
• Little bird
• Exercise intelligence of bird
• Black-headed gull

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo["o]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ( Sayornis ph[oe]be , or Sayornis fuscus ). Called also pewit , and ph[oe]be . The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird ( Contopus virens ) similar ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull , blackcap , pewit gull , Larus ridibundus ] large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [syn: lapwing , green plover , peewit ] small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North ...