Godwit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 76 anagrams from letters in godwit (dgiotw).
First recorded in 1545-55; of obscure origin
Its shorter bill—not over two and a half inches in length—will always distinguish it from the godwit.
The bird combines the characteristics of the Curlew and the godwit, the bill being recurved.
Numbers of the Hudsonian godwit (limosa Hudsonica) were flying about, apparently intending to breed in the neighbourhood.
He also observed the godwit, and a larger and vicious bird, which they named margaulx.
The godwit makes no attempt at concealment, the eggs being deposited in plain sight in a slight hollow in the short grass.
The food of this godwit consists of worms, crustaceans, molluscs, and similar marine creatures.
I saw the hairbreadth escape and the splash, but whether or not the godwit dived to get away, I could not tell.
Very similar in appearance to our Hudsonian godwit, which is frequently called by the name of this species.
It somewhat resembles the godwit in coloring, but it is more of a grayish tinge.
Some of the sandpipers can dive well, and probably the godwit escaped thus.