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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 meronymCharadriidae, family Charadriidae









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