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What (who) is Woodcock - definition
GENUS OF BIRDS
Scolopax; Wood cock; Wood cocks; Woodcocks
![[[American woodcock]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/American Woodcock Scolopax minor.jpg?width=200 "[[American woodcock]]")
woodcock
¦ noun (plural same) a long-billed woodland bird of the sandpiper family, with brown plumage. [Scolopax rusticola (Eurasia) and related species.]
woodcock
(woodcocks, or woodcock)
A woodcock is a small brown bird with a long beak. Woodcock are sometimes shot for sport or food.
N-COUNT
Woodcock
·noun Fig.: A simpleton.
II. Woodcock ·noun Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.
Wikipedia
Woodcock
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name its first recorded in about 1050. According to the Harleian Miscellany, a group of woodcocks is called a "fall".
Examples of use of Woodcock
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2. Woodcock narrowly led Senate colleague Peter Mills.
3. In 1'36 Woodcock joined the TUC‘s economic department.
4. Woodcock is a deputy FDA commissioner and former drug chief.
5. The Associated Press declared Woodcock the winner Wednesday.