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GOLDEN PLOVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("golden plover" is a kind of...):
plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)
Holonyms ("golden plover" is a member of...):
genus Pluvialis; Pluvialis (golden plovers)