Definition of piper

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Piper (n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines..

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Sanny :: Sanny (n.) The sandpiper.
Weet-weet :: Weet-weet (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Kava :: Kava (n.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself..
Tringoid :: Tringoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family..
Sanderling :: Sanderling (n.) A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover..
Culrage :: Culrage (n.) Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).
Peep :: Peep (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla)..
Longirostres :: Longirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division..
Tringa :: Tringa (n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper..
Stint :: Stint (n.) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume..
Shadbird :: Shadbird (n.) The common European sandpiper.
Piper :: Piper (n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts..
Greenshank :: Greenshank (n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
Auletic :: Auletic (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.
Bagpiper :: Bagpiper (n.) One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..
Areca :: Areca (n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime..
Smartweed :: Smartweed (n.) An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender..
Water Laverock :: Water laverock () The common sandpiper.
Methysticin :: Methysticin (n.) A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin..
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