contopus virens

1. 1.

   small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

   Synonymspeweepeeweepeewitpewitwood pewee

   BroaderNew World flycatcher

   Narrowerwestern wood pewee

   Part ofContopus

Questions about contopus virens

What does contopus virens mean?

contopus virens means "small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America".

What is another word for contopus virens?

Close synonyms include pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee. 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 contopus virens a common word?

contopus virens 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.