Word Meanings - FROSTBIRD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The golden plover.

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• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• PLOVER
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• GOLDEN STATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• GOLDEN-ROD
  A tall herb , bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree , a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• GOLDENLY
  In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. Shak.
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• NORFOLK PLOVER
  The stone curlew.