EROLIA ALPINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Erolia alpina mean? 

• EROLIA ALPINA (noun)
  The noun EROLIA ALPINA has 1 sense:

1. small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

  Familiarity information: EROLIA ALPINA used as a noun is very rare.

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• EROLIA ALPINA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dunlin; Erolia alpina; red-backed sandpiper

Hypernyms ("Erolia alpina" is a kind of...):

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Holonyms ("Erolia alpina" is a member of...):

Erolia; genus Erolia (a genus of Scolopacidae)