Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pewit

3 senses of pewit

Sense 1
laughing gull, blackcap, pewit, pewit gull, Larus ridibundus -- (small black-headed European gull)
       => gull, seagull, sea gull -- (mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs)

Sense 2
lapwing, green plover, peewit, pewit -- (large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs)
       => plover -- (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

Sense 3
pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens -- (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)
       => New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird -- (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)