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Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..

Water Junket :: Water junket () The common sandpiper.

Sea Sandpiper :: Sea sandpiper () The purple sandpiper.

Jacksnipe :: "Jacksnipe (n.) A small American sandpiper (Tringa maculata); -- called also pectoral sandpiper, and grass snipe..

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..

Peep :: Peep (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla)..

Sea Lark :: Sea lark () Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling..

Sandpiper :: Sandpiper (n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

Plover :: Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers..

Dunlin :: Dunlin (n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America..

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.

Sanny :: Sanny (n.) The sandpiper.

Tringa :: Tringa (n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper..

Teeter-tail :: Teeter-tail (n.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

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..

Tip-up :: Tip-up (n.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

Sea Snipe :: Sea snipe () A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin..

Tattler :: Tattler (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus..

Tringoid :: Tringoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family..

Knot :: Knot (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne..

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