Golden plover Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots

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Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), one of several species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; called also yellow, black-breasted hill, ∧ whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead.

Webster 1913