woodcock

English - Turkish

Definition of woodcock in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) çulluk

Scolopax rusticola

{i} çulluk

Related Terms

american woodcock

amerikan çulluğu

woodcocks

çulluk kuşu

English - English

Definition of woodcock in English English dictionary

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

{n} a fine bird of passage

game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

A woodcock is a small brown bird with a long beak. Woodcock are sometimes shot for sport or food. Any of five species (family Scolopacidae) of plump, sharp-billed migratory birds of damp, dense woodlands in North America, Europe, and Asia. With eyes set far back on the head, a woodcock has a 360° field of vision. The buffy-brown, mottled plumage provides camouflage. A solitary bird, most active at dusk, it drums its feet to coax earthworms to the surface and then extracts them with its long, forceps-like bill; it may eat twice its weight in worms each day. The female American woodcock (Scolopax,or Philohela, minor) is about 11 in. (28 cm) long; the male is slightly smaller. The male's striking courtship display includes a long, repeated spiraling and dropping sequence. Woodcocks have been popular game birds

(A) A fool is so called from the supposition that woodcocks are without brains Polonius tells his daughter that protestations of love are “springes to catch woodcocks ” (Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 3 )

{i} snipe, kind of bird

Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela

A long billed, neckless "shorebird" (Scolopax minor) of the moist forest Fond of earthworms and noted for its nocturnal display flights in spring Otherwise secretive and rarely seen Padjâshkaaaji or padashkaanji in the Ojibwe

A simpleton

Fig

Any of various wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage

They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds

Related Terms

American woodcock

A North American shorebird, Scolopax minor

A woodcock

mudsucker

Scotch woodcock

A savory dish consisting of scrambled eggs on toast with anchovies or anchovy paste

The woodcock

pewee

american woodcock

small long-billed American woodcock; prized as a game bird

eurasian woodcock

short-legged long-billed migratory Old World woodcock

scotch woodcock

creamy scrambled eggs on toast spread with anchovy paste

sea woodcock

The bar- tailed godwit

Hyphenation

wood·cock

Turkish pronunciation

wûdkäk

Pronunciation

/ˈwo͝odˌkäk/ /ˈwʊdˌkɑːk/

Etymology

[ 'wud-"käk ] (noun.) before 12th century. From wood + cock