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Scolopax vs Woodcock - What's the difference?

scolopax | woodcock |

scolopax

Not English

Scolopax has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

woodcock

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax , of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
  • A simpleton.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you / Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock !"
  • * 1838 , Nathan Drake, Belletristical Works (volume 1, page 215)
    • "Now will that silly woodcock make such a report of what I have said to his chosen friend," observed Sir Robert to his companion when my Lord Cobham was out of hearing

    Derived terms

    * Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola * Amami woodcock, Scolopax mira * Javan woodcock, Scolopax saturata * New Guinea woodcock, Scolopax rosenbergii * Bukidnon woodcock, Scolopax bukidnonensis * Sulawesi woodcock, Scolopax celebensis * Moluccan woodcock, Scolopax rochussenii * American woodcock, Scolopax minor