PLOVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plover mean? 

• PLOVER (noun)
  The noun PLOVER has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

  Familiarity information: PLOVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("plover" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plover"):

Charadrius melodus; piping plover (small plover of eastern North America)

Charadrius vociferus; kildeer; killdeer; killdeer plover (American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry)

Charadrius morinellus; dotrel; dotterel; Eudromias morinellus (rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia)

golden plover (plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots)

green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit (large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs)

turnstone (migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food)

Holonyms ("plover" is a member of...):

Charadriidae; family Charadriidae (plover family)

 Context examples 

If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)