Definition of sandpiper Sandpiper
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We found 5 definitions of sandpiper from 4 different sources.
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What does sandpiper mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: sandpipers |
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| sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers | ||
| limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries | ||
| family scolopacidae, scolopacidae sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers | ||
| actitis hypoleucos, european sandpiper a variety of sandpiper | ||
| actitis macularia, spotted sandpiper common North American sandpiper | ||
| erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint smallest American sandpiper | ||
| dunlin, erolia alpina, red-backed sandpiper small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions | ||
| greenshank, tringa nebularia large European sandpiper with greenish legs | ||
| redshank, tringa totanus a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | ||
| yellowlegs either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | ||
| calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting | ||
| calidris canutus, grayback, greyback, knot a dowitcher with a grey back | ||
| calidris ferruginea, curlew sandpiper Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew | ||
| crocethia alba, sanderling small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | ||
| bartramia longicauda, bartramian sandpiper, upland plover, upland sandpiper large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands | ||
| philomachus pugnax, ruff (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | ||
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Wiktionary 
- sandpiper (Noun)
Any of various small wading bird s of the family Scolopacidae.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sandpiper (n.)
Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. - sandpiper (n.)
A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Part of speech
🔤- sandpiper, noun, singular of sandpipers.
