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SANDPIPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sandpiper" 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 "sandpiper"):
Actitis hypoleucos; European sandpiper (a variety of sandpiper)
Actitis macularia; spotted sandpiper (common North American sandpiper)
Erolia minutilla; least sandpiper; stint (smallest American sandpiper)
dunlin; Erolia alpina; red-backed sandpiper (small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions)
greenshank; Tringa nebularia (large European sandpiper with greenish legs)
redshank; Tringa totanus (a common Old World wading bird with long red legs)
yellowlegs (either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs)
Calidris melanotos; jacksnipe; pectoral sandpiper (American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting)
Calidris canutus; grayback; greyback; knot (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)
Calidris Ferruginea; curlew sandpiper (Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew)
Crocethia alba; sanderling (small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world)
Bartramia longicauda; Bartramian sandpiper; upland plover; upland sandpiper (large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands)
Philomachus pugnax; ruff (common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season)
tattler (any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry)
Holonyms ("sandpiper" is a member of...):
family Scolopacidae; Scolopacidae (sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers)
