american woodcock

1. 1.

   small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird

   Synonymswoodcock snipePhilohela minor

   Broaderwoodcock

   Part ofPhilohela

Questions about american woodcock

What does american woodcock mean?

american woodcock means "small long-billed woodcock; prized as a game bird".

What is another word for american woodcock?

Close synonyms include woodcock snipe, Philohela minor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american woodcock a common word?

american woodcock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.