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sandpiper - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small wading bird that runs along the sand and utters a piping note; a sand-lark, sand-plover, or sand-snipe.
- noun A fish, the pride.
- noun Of Pennant, the green sandpiper: called
Tringa littorea by Linnæus, and Mr. Oldham's white heron by Albin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidæ . - noun (Zoöl.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
- noun See under
Curlew . - noun See under
Stilt .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small
wading birds of the familyScolopacidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From sand + piper
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Examples
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While I'm on the topic of recycling, I should mention, too, that the "sandpiper" product line introduced a year or so ago by our St. Catharines Ontario mill was the industry's first 100-per-cent post-consumer, non-de-inked writing paper.
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He lost his wife to cancer, is a deep thinker – especially when out looking for a pectoral sandpiper or a black-tailed godwit – badly dressed, anti-consumerist and becomes convinced that, for all the police efforts, society is falling apart and "anarchy rules".
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(Zool.) (a) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper ({Trigna minutilla}).
Easter Peeps Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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(Zool.) (a) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper ({Trigna minutilla}).
Archive 2009-04-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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His only companion is a purple sandpiper, speckled and garrulous, who, he thinks, resembles him.
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The Seneca Indians believed the woodcock was made from the leftover parts of other birds -- bill of sandpiper, wings of teal, legs of stork, eyes of hawk -- and it fits.
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Two species of wader, the curlew sandpiper and little stint, do not breed in Britain but pass through on their journey south.
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The Seneca Indians believed the woodcock was made from the leftover parts of other birds -- bill of sandpiper, wings of teal, legs of stork, eyes of hawk -- and it fits.
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Arctic breeding shorebirds such as the dunlin, whimbrel and western sandpiper converge on the rich feeding grounds along the coasts from Louisiana to Florida.
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The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica.
Related Words
hypernyms (3)
Words that are more generic or abstract
hyponyms (33)
Words more specific or concrete
- actitis hypoleucos
- actitis macularia
- bartramia longicauda
- bartramian sandpiper
- calidris canutus
- calidris ferruginea
- calidris melanotos
- crocethia alba
- curlew sandpiper
- dunlin
- erolia alpina
- erolia minutilla
- european sandpiper
- grayback
- greenshank
- greyback
- jacksnipe
- knot
- least sandpiper
- pectoral sandpiper
- philomachus pugnax
- red-backed sandpiper
- redshank
- ruff
- sanderling
- spotted sandpiper
- stint
- tattler
- tringa nebularia
- tringa totanus
- upland plover
- upland sandpiper
- yellowlegs
same context (8)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (48)
Forms
- Actitis hypoleucos
- Actitis macularius
- Aechmorhynchus parvirostris
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Bartramia longicauda
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Calidris acuminata
- Calidris bairdii
- Calidris ferruginea
- Calidris fuscicollis
- Calidris himantopus
- Calidris maritima
- Calidris mauri
- Calidris melanotos
- Calidris minutilla
- Calidris ptilocnemis
- Calidris pusilla
- Common Sandpiper
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
- Green Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Limicola falcinellus
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Prosobonia leucoptera
- Purple Sandpiper
- Rock Sandpiper
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Tahiti Sandpiper
- Terek Sandpiper
- Tringa glareola
- Tringa ochropus
- Tringa solitaria
- Tringa stagnatilis
- Tryngites subruficollis
- Tuamotu Sandpiper
- Upland Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Xenus cinereus
cross-references (54)
Cross-references
- aberdeen sandpiper
- aleutian sandpiper
- armed sandpiper
- ash-colored sandpiper
- baird's sandpiper
- bartramian sandpiper
- black sandpiper
- black-breasted sandpiper
- bonaparte's sandpiper
- boreal sandpiper
- broad-billed sandpiper
- buff-breasted sandpiper
- cayenne sandpiper
- common sandpiper
- cooper's sandpiper
- curlew sandpiper
- equestrian sandpiper
- fighting sandpiper
- freckled sandpiper
- gambetta sandpiper
- goa sandpiper
- gray sandpiper
- green sandpiper
- greenwich sandpiper
- grizzled sandpiper
- hebridal sandpiper
- least sandpiper
- little sandpiper
- louisiane sandpiper
- pectoral sandpiper
- prybilof sandpiper
- red sandpiper
- red-backed sandpiper
- red-necked sandpiper
- selninger sandpiper
- semipalmated sandpiper
- senegal sandpiper
- sharptailed sandpiper
- shore sandpiper
- solitary sandpiper
- spoon-billed sandpiper
- spotted sandpiper
- stilt-sandpiper
- streaked sandpiper
- striated sandpiper
- swiss sandpiper
- temminck's sandpiper
- terek sandpiper
- three-toed sandpiper
- uniform sandpiper
- waved sandpiper
- white-winged sandpiper
- wilson's sandpiper
- yellow-legged sandpiper
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