plover

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"Let us see what the plover is about It ran along the back of the reptile, but stopped on the top of its snout, and then with perfect fearlessness actually flew down into its gaping mouth.

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  1. noun Any of various widely distributed wading birds of the family Charadriidae, having rounded bodies, short tails, and short bills.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related birds.

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  • Outside of the sheep zone in the exclusively cattle-raising country, where the rough pampas grasses and herbage had not been eaten down, the plover were sparsely distributed I remember that one day, when I was thirteen, I went out one morning after breakfast to look for plovers' eggs, just at the beginning of the laying season when all the eggs one found were practically new-laid. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • Stating that tourists are surprised to see these birds in Antalya, Erdoğan said birds such as the spur-winged plover, which is seen less and less in Europe, have laid over 50 eggs in the region. —  TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
  • They include the mountain plover, the burrowing owl, the ferruginous hawk and the black-footed ferret.
  • The only kind of plover in the Forest is the green plover or lapwing, which were very numerous at one time in the wet greens. —  The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
  • "Let us see what the plover is about It ran along the back of the reptile, but stopped on the top of its snout, and then with perfect fearlessness actually flew down into its gaping mouth. —  In the Wilds of Africa
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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Vulgar Latin *pluviārius, from Latin pluvia, rain; see pluvial.

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  1. from Middle English plover, plovere, from Old French plovier, French pluvier, a plover, from Middle Latin *pluviarius, pluvarius, a plover, so called because it appears during the rainy season; prop, adjective, equivalent to L. pluvialis, of the rain (cf. New Latin Pluviales, plural, the plovers), from pluvia, rain: see pluvious.
 

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