| 单词 | ringed plover |
| 释义 | > as lemmasringed plover ringed plover n. any of several small, short-necked plovers of the genus Charadrius, having a white collar and a black band across the breast; esp.: (a) C. hiaticula of Eurasia and Canada, and (in full little ringed plover) C. dubius, of Eurasia and Australasia; (b) North American, the semipalmated plover, C. semipalmatus; cf. ring plover n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover) sea-lark1602 ringlestonesa1682 stone-runner1681 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 ring-necked plover1750 towillee1758 sand lark1771 ringed plover1776 ring dotterel1797 ring plover1797 dulwilly1802 ring-neck1837 ringed sand plover1842 stonehatch1852 miller1885 sand-runner1894 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 479 Ringed [Plover]... The upper part of the neck is incircled with a white collar. 1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. V. 30 The Ringed Plover is very abundant on the low sandy shores of our whole sea-coast, during summer. 1882 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 76/1 The group commonly known as Ringed Plovers or Ring Doterels. 1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Names Brit. Birds 205 Sand Runner: The Dunlin. Also the Ringed Plover and the Sanderling on the Humber. 1955 G. H. Lowery Louisiana Birds 236 Piping Plover... This is the first of our five so-called ‘ringed plovers’—plovers that have one or two bands that either partially or completely encircle the birds' neck and chest. 2004 Wildlife News May 16/3 Ringed plovers scurry over the surface to draw you away from their eggs. < as lemmas |
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