A common name for any limicoline bird which is not a plover or a snipe; esp. Tringoides or Actitis hypoleucus, the Common Sandpiper, and A. macularia…
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释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of (11) sandpiper1674 A common name for any limicoline bird which is not a plover or a snipe; esp. Tringoides or Actitis hypoleucus, the Common Sandpiper, and A. macularia… stone-runner1681 a name for the ringed plover, or the dotterel; also applied to some species of sandpiper. sand bird1709 a bird whose habitat is the seashore, esp. the sandpiper, n. piper1793 A sandpiper. Now U.S. tattler1831 Ornithology. Any of the sandpipers of the genus Totanus or subfamily Totaninæ; so called from their vociferous cry. water junket1833 the common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos. tip-up1848 A name for the American sandpiper. kitty-needy1850 Also prefixed to, or forming part of the local names of other birds, as kitty-coot n. the moorhen (Gallinula chloropus). kitty-needy n. the… weet-weet1852 /ˈwiːtwiːt/. Used as a name for the sandpiper. peep1864 U.S. Any of several small sandpipers. Formerly also: †the clapper rail, Rallus longirostris (obsolete). sand-runner1894 a sand-plover or sandpiper (Newton). |
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