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PIPING PLOVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does piping plover mean?
• PIPING PLOVER (noun)
The noun PIPING PLOVER has 1 sense:
1. small plover of eastern North America
Familiarity information: PIPING PLOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small plover of eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Charadrius melodus; piping plover
Hypernyms ("piping plover" is a kind of...):
plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)
Holonyms ("piping plover" is a member of...):
Charadrius; genus Charadrius (type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers)
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