单词 | pewee |
释义 | pewee (once / 20204 pages) n WORD FAMILY pewee: pewees USAGE EXAMPLESStretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep. Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain(1959) Can you understand what must have been the attitude of these gold-braid pewees toward an old-fashioned apple pie couple from the tall timber? Ade, George, In Pastures New(2011) Only the pewee and the red-eyed vireo, whom neither midday nor midsummer heat can silence, share the stage with him then. Blanchan, Neltje, Birds Every Child Should Know(2011) n small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America Syn|Hypo|Hyper Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee small flycatcher of western North America New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
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