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单词 grey plover
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grey plover
grey plover n. any of several wading birds that are greyish in their winter plumage; spec. an Arctic-breeding plover, Pluvialis squatarola, which has a black breast in the breeding season; = black-bellied plover n. at black-bellied adj. Compounds.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis squatarola (grey plover)
sea plover1634
whistling plover1668
strand plover1772
squatarole1819
whistling field bird1819
grey plover1838
whistling field plover1872
Swiss plover1874
pilot1880
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis apricaria (Eurasian golden plover)
green plover1550
spotted plover1750
golden plover1766
yellow plover1793
grey plover1885
squealer1888
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris canutus (knot)
knot1452
gnat1616
marl1699
sea-snipe1767
greyback1813
red-breasted sandpiper1813
grey plover1885
a1549 in Gentleman's Mag. May (1813) 427/1 Plovers grey the dosen, iij s.
1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 91 The Grey-plover, Pluvialis cinerea.
1750 J. Birket Jrnl. 5 Aug. in Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 1 I observed a flock of Gray Plover.
1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 617/2 The gray plover (Charadrius squatarola)..distinguished..by a very small hind toe.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 195 Knot (Tringa canutus)... The sober tints of its feathers in winter have caused it to be called..Grey plover (Scotland).
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 180 Golden plover... From the colour of the plumage, which varies according to age and the season of the year, they are called...Grey plover (Ireland).
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 880 We think of the grey plover, the interesting turnstone, the jack-snipe.., the sanderling, and the bar-tailed godwit.
2006 Independent 5 July 9/4 Migrants..such as Bar-tailed godwits, grey plovers, knots and dunlins.
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