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Meanings of nighthawk in English

Russian
chordeilinae
Portuguese
chordeilinae
Spanish
chordeilinae
Wikidata

Subfamily of birds.

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        chordeilinae
        Spanish
        nighthawk
        Wikidata

        1919 Fighter aircraft family by Nieuport & General Aircraft.

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              nighthawk
              Portuguese
              noctâmbulo

              A person who likes to be active late at night.

                    noctâmbulo
                    Spanish
                    chotacabras yanqui

                    Mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker.

                          chotacabras yanqui
                          Usage of nighthawk in English
                          1
                          The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
                          Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
                          2
                          Clearly it came through the still air-theeerie hoot of a nighthawk.
                          The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
                          3
                          A nighthawk, wheeling overhead through the rain, sent down her discordant cry.
                          Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
                          4
                          Through all the turmoil the nighthawk slept peacefully in the shade of a sage-clump.
                          The Settling of the Sage
                          5
                          The black bat and the darting nighthawk were a-wing, grim spectres of the dusk.
                          The Long Ago
                          6
                          Another traveler-thespotted-wingednighthawk-wasalso roughly used by the storm.
                          The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
                          7
                          Susan kept her ears pitched for the nighthawk's piercing two-note whistle, and heard nothing.
                          Wizard and glass
                          8
                          He jumped convulsively at a nighthawk's reedy cry, then sagged against a tree, shaking.
                          To the blight: the eye of the world
                          9
                          A nighthawk flew by, identified by its nasal peent.
                          The Tarn of Eternity
                          10
                          The remuda trailed behind the wagon under the combined supervision of the nighthawk and the wrangler.
                          The Settling of the Sage
                          11
                          WHIRR, almost into her face, went a nighthawk stretched along a limb for its daytime nap.
                          Freckles
                          12
                          As twilight deepened, the low dart of a nighthawk over the field would catch my eye.
                          The sound of a wild snail eating
                          13
                          The nighthawk opens its beak as it flies through clouds of insects, scooping them into its enormous mouth.
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                          14
                          The nighthawk and whippoorwill are its relatives, and it resembles them not a little, especially in its nocturnal habits.
                          Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
                          15
                          A few bats were wavering in air hunting insects, and occasionally an owl or a nighthawk crossed the lake.
                          The Harvester
                          16
                          The whistle of the nighthawk.
                          Wizard and glass
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                          Translations for nighthawk
                          Nighthawk through the time