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Goatsucker

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.

    "[…] ah, that was the woodcock - and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him […]"

  2. 2
    mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects wordnet

Etymology

From goat + sucker, from the ancient folk belief that they sucked milk from goats.

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