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green plover

noun

, British.


green plover

noun

  1. another name for lapwing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of green plover1

First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences

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

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.

Marcus is a typical Sutcliff hero, a dutiful Roman who is increasingly drawn to the British world of "other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling".

I have seen peewits or green plovers in the same field, which is now about to be built on.

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. 

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