PEEWIT

pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens

(noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America

lapwing, green plover, peewit, pewit

(noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

peewit (plural peewits)

any of several birds

the lapwing or green plover

the laughing gull

the pewee or peewee

Source: Wiktionary


Pee"vit, Pee"wit, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: See Pewit.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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AGITATION

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The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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