| NOUN | animal | caprimulgid, goatsucker, nightjar | mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes |
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| Meaning | mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects. | |
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| Synonyms | goatsucker, nightjar | |
| Member of | Caprimulgidae, family Caprimulgidae | goatsuckers |
| Narrower | European goatsucker, European nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus | Old World goatsucker |
| chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus carolinensis | large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States | |
| nighthawk, bullbat, mosquito hawk | mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | |
| poorwill, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii | goatsucker of western North America | |
| whippoorwill, Caprimulgus vociferus | American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage | |
| Broader | caprimulgiform bird | long-winged nonpasserine birds |
| Spanish | caprimulgid, chotacabras | |
| Catalan | bocatxo, caprimulgid, caprimúlgid, escanyapastors, escloper | |
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