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GOLDEN PLOVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does golden plover mean?
• GOLDEN PLOVER (noun)
The noun GOLDEN PLOVER has 1 sense:
1. plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
Familiarity information: GOLDEN PLOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("golden 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 ("golden plover" is a member of...):
genus Pluvialis; Pluvialis (golden plovers)
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