Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of sandpipers, of the family Scolopacidæ
- noun [lowercase] A sandpiper, or some similar small wader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See
dunlin ,knot , andsandpiper .
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- noun zoology Any of the
genus Tringa ofwaders , containing theshanks andtattlers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a genus of Scolopacidae
Etymologies
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Examples
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September, and even as early as August, they begin to arrive on the pampas, the golden plover often still wearing his black nuptial dress; singly and in pairs, in small flocks, and in clouds they come -- curlew, godwit, plover, tatler, tringa -- piping the wild notes to which the
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T. cinerea, gutture albo, the white throated cootfooted tringa.
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The first that was brought me (on the 14th May) was the sand-piper, _tringa hypoleucus_: it was a cock bird, and haunted the banks of some ponds near the village; and, as it had a companion, doubtless intended to have bred near that water.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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Vi - tringa derives it from T\tr\, languldus fuit; and it may be indefinitely ufed of all dead perfons. larfoi, o.
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