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Definition of plover

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Plover (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds..

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Pratincole :: Pratincole (n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a forked tail..

Bullhead :: Bullhead (n.) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

Squatter :: Squaterole (n.) The black-bellied plover.

Quaily :: Quaily (n.) The upland plover.

Dotterel :: Dotterel (v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler..

Stone-hearted :: Stonehatch (n.) The ring plover, or dotterel..

Ringlestone :: Ringlestone (n.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover..

Frostbird :: Frostbird (n.) The golden plover.

Stilted :: Stilt (n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer..

Drome :: Drome (n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher..

Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..

Limicolae :: Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae..

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

Dulwilly :: Dulwilly (n.) The ring plover.

Troutbird :: Troutbird (n.) The American golden plover.

Beetlehead :: Beetlehead (n.) The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover..

Whew :: Whew (v. i.) To whistle with a shrill pipe, like a plover..

Squeamish :: Squealer (n.) The American golden plover.

Whistler :: Whistler (n.) The golden plover and the gray plover.

Killdeer :: Killdeer (n.) A small American plover (Aegialitis vocifera).