plover : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), the lapwing.

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• (Zoöl.), an Asiatic plover (Dromas ardeola).

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• (Zoöl.), the black-bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda).

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• noun plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; called also yellow, black-breasted hill, ∧ whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead.

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• (Zoöl.), t he upland or field plover.

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• noun large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
  lapwing; peewit; pewit.
  

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• noun American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
  killdeer; kildeer; Charadrius vociferus.
  

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• . See Tattler.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Oyster catcher, above.

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• noun small plover of eastern North America
  Charadrius melodus.
  

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• the dunlin. Prov. Eng.

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• (Zoöl.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The ringed dotterel . (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover (Ægialitis semipalmata).

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover . (b) The rock snipe.

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• the black-bellied plover. Prov. Eng.

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• (Zoöl.) the sanderling.

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Sea" plov"er

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1. the black-bellied plover.

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• (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.

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• (Zoöl.), the knot.

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• (Zoöl.), a small plover (Ægialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.

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• (Zoöl.), an Old World plover (Hoplopterus spinosus) having a sharp spur on the bend of the wing. It inhabits Northern Africa and the adjacent parts of Asia and Europe.

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• noun long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
  longlegs; stilt; stiltbird; long-legs; Himantopus stilt.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the stilt.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The European stone curlew . (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover (E. recurvirostris). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover . Prov. Eng. (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. Prov. Eng. Also applied to other species of limicoline birds.

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• (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as G. orientalis of India; a pratincole.

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• noun large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands
  upland sandpiper; Bartramian sandpiper; Bartramia longicauda.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.

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• . (a) The golden plover . (b) The black-bellied plover.
• . (Zoöl.) (a) The golden plover. (b) The black-bellied, or gray, plover.

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• (Zoöl.), the golden plover.

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