About The Word Sandpiper
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Sandpiper
Sandpiper Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Sandpiper?
[n] any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sandpiper: Related Terms | Find terms related to Sandpiper: See Also | Actitis hypoleucos | Actitis macularia | Bartramia longicauda | Bartramian sandpiper | Calidris canutus | Calidris Ferruginea | Calidris melanotos | Crocethia alba | curlew sandpiper | dunlin | Erolia alpina | Erolia minutilla | European sandpiper | family Scolopacidae | grayback | greenshank | jacksnipe | knot | least sandpiper | limicoline bird | pectoral sandpiper | Philomachus pugnax | red-backed sandpiper | redshank | ruff | sanderling | Scolopacidae | shore bird | shorebird | spotted sandpiper | stint | tattler | Tringa nebularia | Tringa totanus | upland plover | upland sandpiper | yellowlegs Sandpiper In Webster's Dictionary \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
{Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
{Tringid[ae]}.
Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also
{brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the
red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the
semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the
spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis
macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites
subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or
upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European
species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, or
Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler},
{peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}.
Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called
sandpipers.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
{Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.
{Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.
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