plover

plov·er  (plvr, plvr)

n. pl. plover or plov·ers

1. Any of various widely distributed wading birds of the family Charadriidae, having rounded bodies, short tails, and short bills.

2. Any of various similar or related birds.

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[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Vulgar Latin *pluvirius, from Latin pluvia, rain; see pluvial.]

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plover

Noun

a shore bird with a round head, straight bill, and long pointed wings [Old French plovier rainbird]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries Charadriidae, family Charadriidae - plover family Charadrius melodus, piping plover - small plover of eastern North America Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover - American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus - rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia golden plover - plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs turnstone - migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food