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GENUS CONTOPUS

• GENUS CONTOPUS (noun)
The noun GENUS CONTOPUS has 1 sense:

1. pewees

Familiarity information: GENUS CONTOPUS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS CONTOPUS (noun)

Sense 1

genus Contopus ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Pewees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Contopus; genus Contopus

Hypernyms ("genus Contopus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Contopus"):

Contopus virens; peewee; peewit; pewee; pewit; wood pewee (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)

Holonyms ("genus Contopus" is a member of...):

superfamily Tyrannidae; Tyrannidae (New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada)

"Fine words butter no parsnips."
(English proverb)
"Man has responsibility, not power."
(Native American proverb, Tuscarora)
"When the fox can't reach the grape, says it's unripe."
(Armenian proverb)
"He who has money and friends, turns his nose at justice."
(Corsican proverb)

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