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LAPWING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lapwing mean?
• LAPWING (noun)
The noun LAPWING has 1 sense:
1. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Familiarity information: LAPWING 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 ("lapwing" 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 ("lapwing" is a member of...):
genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)
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