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Little woodcock
Woodcock Wood"cock`, n. [AS. wuducoc.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) 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. Note: The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits. 2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.] If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, ``A woodcock!' --Beau. & Fl. Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe. Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe.

Meaning of Little woodcock from wikipedia

- The wood****s are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or wood****...
- Sulawesi wood**** (Scolopax celebensis) also known as Celebes wood****, is a medium-sized wader. It is larger and darker than Eurasian wood**** but with...
- The Javan wood**** (Scolopax saturata) or rufous wood**** is a small wader restricted to wet mountain forests on Sumatra and western Java. It nests on...
- The Eurasian wood**** (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its...
- The American wood**** (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister...
- The Moluccan wood**** (Scolopax rochussenii), also known as the Obi wood****, is a lowland wader endemic to Indonesia. Its distribution is restricted...
- The Bukidnon wood**** (Scolopax bukidnonensis), or Philippine wood**** is a medium-sized wader. It was only described as new to science as recently as...
- Krueger (March 5, 1939 – March 5, 2010), best known by his birth name Peter Wood****, was a Canadian serial killer, child rapist and diagnosed psychopath. He...
- George Wood**** (May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist...
- The Amami wood**** (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than the Eurasian wood****, and may be conspecific...