PIPING PLOVER

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Meaning:

Small plover of eastern North America

Synonyms:

Charadrius melodus; piping plover

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("piping 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 ("piping plover" is a member of...):

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

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