goatsucker

English - Turkish

Definition of goatsucker in English Turkish dictionary

çobanaldatan

Caprimulgus europaeus

keçisağan

{i} dağkırlangıcı

English - English

Definition of goatsucker in English English dictionary

Any bird in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae

{n} a bird of the swallow kind

The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk

One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp

mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled grayish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects

the European species (Caprimulgus Europæus); so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats

{i} nightjar, species of insectivorous nocturnal bird from the genus Caprimulgus

Related Terms

The goatsucker

puck

The goatsucker

jarowl

european goatsucker

Old World goatsucker

Hyphenation

goat·suck·er

Etymology

[ -"s&-k&r ] (noun.) 1611. goat +‎ sucker