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GREEN PLOVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does green plover mean?
• GREEN PLOVER (noun)
The noun GREEN PLOVER has 1 sense:
1. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Familiarity information: GREEN PLOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit
Hypernyms ("green plover" is a kind of...):
plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)
Holonyms ("green plover" is a member of...):
genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)
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