DOTTEREL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia

Synonyms:

Charadrius morinellus; dotrel; dotterel; Eudromias morinellus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dotterel" 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 ("dotterel" is a member of...):

Charadrius; genus Charadrius (type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers)

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