WordNet: plover

any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

• hypernym limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird

• hyponym Charadrius melodus, piping plover

• hyponym Charadrius vociferus, kildeer, killdeer, killdeer plover

• hyponym Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus, dotrel, dotterel

• hyponym golden plover

• hyponym green plover, lapwing, peewit, pewit

• hyponym turnstone

• member holonym Charadriidae, family Charadriidae

plover

• (suomi) kurmitsa (synonyymi)