green plover

American  

noun

British.

1. lapwing.

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green plover British  

noun

1. another name for lapwing

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Etymology

Origin of green plover

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

One alone amongst them, the green plover, was opposed to this.

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret

Waterfowl; grey and green plover; also duck and snipe, rabbits, &c., by permission of farmers.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd

The only kind of plover in the Forest is the green plover or lapwing, which were very numerous at one time in the p. 205wet greens. 

From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George)

Large numbers of green plover were bagged from time to time, and often in winter we had a chance at their grey cousins, the whistling species.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous