SANDPIPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandpiper mean? 

• SANDPIPER (noun)
  The noun SANDPIPER has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

  Familiarity information: SANDPIPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDPIPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sandpiper" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandpiper"):

Actitis hypoleucos; European sandpiper (a variety of sandpiper)

Actitis macularia; spotted sandpiper (common North American sandpiper)

Erolia minutilla; least sandpiper; stint (smallest American sandpiper)

dunlin; Erolia alpina; red-backed sandpiper (small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions)

greenshank; Tringa nebularia (large European sandpiper with greenish legs)

redshank; Tringa totanus (a common Old World wading bird with long red legs)

yellowlegs (either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs)

Calidris melanotos; jacksnipe; pectoral sandpiper (American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting)

Calidris canutus; grayback; greyback; knot (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)

Calidris Ferruginea; curlew sandpiper (Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew)

Crocethia alba; sanderling (small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world)

Bartramia longicauda; Bartramian sandpiper; upland plover; upland sandpiper (large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands)

Philomachus pugnax; ruff (common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season)

tattler (any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry)

Holonyms ("sandpiper" is a member of...):

family Scolopacidae; Scolopacidae (sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers)