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