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plover

/pluhv-er, ploh-ver/US // ˈplʌv ər, ˈploʊ vər //UK // (ˈplʌvə) //

鸻,鸻鸟,鸻鹬相争,鸻类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae.Compare dotterel, killdeer, lapwing.
    • : any of various similar shorebirds, as the upland plover and other sandpipers.

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Examples

  • It is interesting to notice a resemblance between this huge bird and our English wild duck or plover.

  • Several yellow-legged plover were shot along the banks, but no attempt was made to bag ducks, as it was their breeding season.

  • A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead.

  • The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.

  • Again the plover's notes, this time in the field immediately behind; repeated, too, in the field on the right hand.