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Whippoorwill

noun
1.
American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage.  Synonym: Caprimulgus vociferus.





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"Whippoorwill" Quotes from Famous Books



... impenetrable curtain. Only the outline of the opposite range could be seen. It seemed to have closed in on the camp, and like a gigantic wall, to shut it off from the outer world. An owl hooted in a tree not far away and from a cleft in the mountains came the weird song of the whippoorwill. ...
— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes


Words linked to "Whippoorwill" :   Caprimulgus, nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, genus Caprimulgus, caprimulgid, goatsucker


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