Definition of "wood pewee" []

• Either of two small pewees, Contopus virens of the eastern United States or C. sordidulus of western North America, living in wooded areas. (noun)

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• "The air was tremulous with heavenly notes, the lights went out in the hall, dusk swept across the stage, a cricket sang and a katydid answered, and a wood pewee wrung the heart with its lonesome cry."