单词 | upland plover |
释义 | upland plover (once / 200328 pages) n WORD FAMILY upland plover: upland plovers USAGE EXAMPLESAlso there were many crow-blackbirds hopping about in the dry fields, and the upland plover were breeding close by the light-house. Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No...(2010) May, and the upland plovers now were nesting all across the prairies. Hough, Emerson, The Covered Wagon(2010) In North America this is to-day the status of the whooping crane, upland plover, and several other species. Hornaday, William Temple, Our Vanishing Wild Life—Its Extermi...(2010) n large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands Syn|Hyper Bartramia longicauda, Bartramian sandpiper, upland sandpiper sandpiper any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers |
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