1. pewit(n = noun.animal) blackcap, larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull - small black-headed European gull; Array
is a kind of gull, sea gull, seagull
is a member of genus larus, larus
2. pewit(n = noun.animal) green plover, lapwing, peewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs; Array
is a kind of plover
is a member of genus vanellus, vanellus
3. pewit(n = noun.animal) contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America; Array
is a kind of flycatcher, new world flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher
is a member of contopus, genus contopus
has particulars: contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee
The lapwing. [1913 Webster]
pewit, var. of PEEWIT.