English noun: plover |
1. | plover (animal) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers |
|
| Broader (hypernym) | limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird |
|
| Narrower (hyponym) | Charadrius melodus, Charadrius morinellus, Charadrius vociferus, dotrel, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus, golden plover, green plover, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit, piping plover, turnstone |
|
| Member meronym | Charadriidae, family Charadriidae |
|