Meaning Of The Word Woodcock

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woodcock
countable noun: A woodcock is a small brown bird with a long beak. Woodcock are sometimes shot for sport or food.

woodcock in American English
a migratory European shorebird (Scolopax rusticola) with short legs and a long bill, of the same family (Scolopacidae) as snipe: it is hunted as game
noun: either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor

woodcock in British English
noun: an Old World game bird, Scolopax rusticola, resembling the snipe but larger and having shorter legs and neck: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes

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