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lapwing

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lap·wing  (lpwng)
n.
Any of several Old World birds of the genus Vanellus related to the plovers, especially V. vanellus, having a narrow crest and erratic flight behavior. Also called green plover, pewit.
[By folk etymology from Middle English lapwink, hoopoe, lapwing, from Old English hlapewince : hlapan, to leap + *wincan, to waver.]
lapwing
Noun
a bird of the plover family with a crested head Also called: (peewit) [Old English hlēapewince plover]
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Noun1.lapwinglapwing - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
green plover, peewit, pewit
plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
genus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwings


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