Sandpiper

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
     1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
        game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
        {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
        {Tringidae}.
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     Note: The most important North American species are the
           pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also
           {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the
           red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
           ({Tringa alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
           maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
           canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
           pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
           ({Actitis macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper
           ({Tryngites subruficollis}), and the Bartramian
           sandpiper, or upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among
           the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
           ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
           ({Actitis hypoleucus} syn. {Tringoides hypoleucus}),
           called also {fiddler}, {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet},
           and {summer snipe}. Some of the small plovers and
           tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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     2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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     {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.
  
     {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pride \Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.]
     (Zool.)
     A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); --
     called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sandpiper
       n : any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender
           bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers