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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of small clamatorial birds, of the family Tyrannidæ, characterized, among the little tyrant flycatchers, by their extremely small feet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of birds comprised of pewees, and including the wood pewees Contopus sordidulus and Contopus virens.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun pewees

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