Meaning Of The Word Godwit

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godwit in American English
any of a genus (Limosa, family Scolopacidae) of brownish shorebirds with a long bill that curves slightly upward
noun: any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit), having a long bill that curves upward slightly

godwit in British English
noun: any large shore bird of the genus Limosa, of northern and arctic regions, having long legs and a long upturned bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes

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