单词 | upland sandpiper |
释义 | upland sandpiper in American English US a large, short-billed sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) found in the fields and uplands of the interior of North and South America : formerly called upland ploverupland sandpiper in American Englishnoun a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers Also called: upland plover, Bartramian sandpiper Word origin [1825–35, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: archaic, breakdown, cliché, panda, torque |
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