plover
pronunciation
How to pronounce plover in British English:
UK [ˈplʌvə(r)]
How to pronounce plover in American English:
US [ˈplʌvɚ, ˈplovɚ]
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- Noun:
- any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
Word Origin
- plover
- plover: [14] Etymologically, the plover is the ‘rain-bird’. Its name comes via Anglo-Norman plover from Vulgar Latin *ploviārius, a derivative of Latin pluvia ‘rain’ (source of French pluie, Italian pioggia, and Spanish Iluvia ‘rain’ and related to English flow). Various theories have been put forward as to how it came to be so called, among them that migrating plovers arrive in autumn, at the start of the rainy season; that plovers get restless at the approach of rain; and that some species have plumage spotted with pale marks, like raindrops.=> flow, pluvial
- plover (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French plover, Old French pluvier, earlier plovier (c. 1200), from Vulgar Latin *plovarius, literally "belonging to rain," from Latin pluvia "rain (water)" from pluere "to rain," from PIE root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Perhaps so called because the birds' migration arrival coincides with the start of the rainy season, or from its supposed restlessness when rain approaches.
Example
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- 4. That rate will have practical implications for the seabirds that will come to winter along the gulf coasts - the piping plover , the blue-winged teal and the northern pintail - because it will largely determine how much oil will be there to greet them .