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whippoorwill


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Whip-poor-will  \Whip"-poor-will`\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  An  American  bird  ({Antrostomus  vociferus})  allied  to  the 
  nighthawk  and  goatsucker;  --  so  called  in  imitation  of  the 
  peculiar  notes  which  it  utters  in  the  evening.  [Written  also 
  {whippowil}.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  whippoorwill 
  n  :  American  nocturnal  goatsucker  with  gray-and-white  plumage 
  [syn:  {Caprimulgus  vociferus}] 




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