Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

(Zoology) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringida. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hamastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.