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单词 sandpiper
释义 sandpiper
\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: sand (I) + piper
1. : any of numerous small limicoline birds (as the common European sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos and the spotted sandpiper of America) that are distinguished from the related plovers chiefly by the bill which is moderately long and often soft and sensitive at the tip but not of the extreme length characteristic of the typical snipe, that have moderately long legs and necks and plumage usually streaked with brown, gray, or blackish above but more or less extensively white below, and that frequent sandy and muddy shores breeding mostly in the arctic regions but migrating extensively into temperate latitudes — see baird's sandpiper, least sandpiper, semipalmated sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper
2. : sand pride
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