| Noun | 1. | family Charadriidae - plover family bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Charadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers Charadrius, genus Charadrius - type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers genus Pluvialis, Pluvialis - golden plovers genus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwings Arenaria, genus Arenaria - turnstones |