sandpipern.
/ˈsandpʌɪpə/ 1. 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, the common North American Sandpiper.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper)
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 90 Sand-piper: Tringa minor.
1768 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 56 The sandpiper, tringa hypoleucus.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 170 Green Sandpiper. Tringa ochropus, Lin.
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. 130 Wood Sandpiper. (Totanus glareola.)
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. 144 Spotted Sandpiper. (Totanus macularia.)
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. 146 Purple Sandpiper. (Totanus maritimus.)
1835 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 444 The Curlew Sandpiper. Tringa subarquata, Temm.
1886 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 260/1 The birds commonly called Sandpipers seem to form three sections,..Totaninæ, Tringinæ, and Phalaropodinæ.
1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 78 Sandpipers trot in and out by troops after the retiring waves.
2. A kind of lamprey (see quot. 1880).
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the world > animals > fish > superclass Agnatha > [noun] > suborder Petromyzontoidei or genus Petromyzon > member of (lamprey) > kind of lamprey
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1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 693 The ‘Pride’ or ‘Sand-Piper’ or Small Lampern (Petromyzon branchialis).
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