PEWIT

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

pewit (plural pewits)

(UK) Alternative form of peewit

Source: Wiktionary


Pe"wit, n. Etym: [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zoöl.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing. (c) The pewee. [Written also peevit, peewit, pewet.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TIME

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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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