sandpiper
English Thesaurus
1. any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird, |
| definition | : | any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | actitis hypoleucos, european sandpiper, |
| definition | : | a variety of sandpiper (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | actitis macularia, spotted sandpiper, |
| definition | : | common North American sandpiper (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | erolia minutilla, least sandpiper, stint, |
| definition | : | smallest American sandpiper (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dunlin, erolia alpina, red-backed sandpiper, |
| definition | : | small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | greenshank, tringa nebularia, |
| definition | : | large European sandpiper with greenish legs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | redshank, tringa totanus, |
| definition | : | a common Old World wading bird with long red legs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | yellowlegs, |
| definition | : | either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | calidris melanotos, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper, |
| definition | : | American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | calidris canutus, grayback, greyback, knot, |
| definition | : | a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | calidris ferruginea, curlew sandpiper, |
| definition | : | Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | crocethia alba, sanderling, |
| definition | : | small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bartramia longicauda, bartramian sandpiper, upland plover, upland sandpiper, |
| definition | : | large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | philomachus pugnax, ruff, |
| definition | : | common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tattler, |
| definition | : | any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family scolopacidae, scolopacidae, |
| definition | : | sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers (noun.animal) |
Visual ArtiKata
Explore sandpiper in ArtiKata.com >