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单词 purple sandpiper
释义

purple sandpiper in American English

noun
a sandpiper, Calidris maritima, of arctic regions of the New and Old World, having in winter a slate-gray back with purplish reflections
Word origin
[1815–25]

Examples of 'purple sandpiper' in a sentence
purple sandpiper

On the reserve there is a variety of wading birds, including turnstone, purple sandpiper, sanderling and ringed plover.This is a purple sandpiper, another of those birds that come here in winter from the far north.The purple sandpiper also dodges the waves, but does so by leaping about over the rocks.Bird-watchers flock here to try to glimpse golden plover, goldeneye snipe and purple sandpipers.Like many of our wintering waders, purple sandpipers go back in summer to the northern tundra.
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