Word Meanings - STONEHATCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ring plover, or dotterel.

Related words: (words related to STONEHATCH)

• 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;
• DOTTEREL
  Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Ascham.
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• SEA DOTTEREL
  The turnstone.
• NORFOLK PLOVER
  The stone curlew.