Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common goatsucker, night-jar, or fern-owl, Caprimulgus europæus. Also door-hawk.
Wiktionary
- n. A bird, the European goatsucker.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the
dor beetle. See goatsucker.
Etymologies
- So called because it eats the dorbeetle. (Wiktionary)
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