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plover

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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.

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

plover [ˈplʌvə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any shore bird of the family Charadriidae, typically having a round head, straight bill, and large pointed wings: order Charadriiformes
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of similar and related birds, such as the Egyptian plover (see crocodile bird) and the upland plover
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals)
green plover another name for lapwing
[from Old French plovier rainbird, from Latin pluvia rain]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ploverplover - 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
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

plover noun
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collective nouns stand, wing
Translations
plover [ˈplʌvəʳ] Nchorlito m
plover
nRegenpfeifer m; (= lapwing)Kiebitz m
plover [ˈplʌvəʳ] npiviere m
ringed plover → corriere m grosso
golden plover → piviere dorato
plover [ˈplʌvəʳ] npiviere m
ringed plover → corriere m grosso
golden plover → piviere dorato


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Put an olive into a lark, put a lark into a quail; put a quail into a plover; put a plover into a partridge; put a partridge into a pheasant; put a pheasant into a turkey.
They went boating on the harbor and up the three pretty rivers that flowed into it; they had clambakes on the bar and mussel-bakes on the rocks; they picked strawberries on the sand-dunes; they went out cod-fishing with Captain Jim; they shot plover in the shore fields and wild ducks in the cove--at least, the men did.
These islands are furnished with a number of ponds, and at certain seasons abound with swans, geese, brandts, cranes, gulls, plover, and other wild-fowl.
 
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