Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common goatsucker, night-jar, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus europæus. Also
door-hawk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the
dor beetle. Seegoatsucker .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bird, the
European goatsucker .
Etymologies
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So called because it eats the dorbeetle.
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