单词 | dotterel |
释义 | dotterel (once / 142402 pages) n WORD FAMILY dotterel: dotterels USAGE EXAMPLESIt warned birds such as kittiwakes and dotterels were particularly vulnerable. BBC(Mar 30, 2014) The Dotterel, Little Dotard, or Morinellus, 'little fool', received both the one and the other of its names from its alleged stupidity. Johns, Rev. C. A., British Birds in their Haunts(2011) A dotterel goes plaintively piping over the stones, and the "cheep, cheep," of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae. Anonymous, The Confessions of a Poacher(2011) n rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia Syn|Hyper Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus, dotrel plover any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers |
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