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sandpiper

N นก ชาย ฝั่งทะเล มี ขา และ ปาก ยาว nok-fang-ta-lea-me-ka-lea-pak

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SANDPIPER

n.A bird of the genus Tringa.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SANDPIPER

SANDPIPER Sand "pi `per, n.

1. (Zo \'94l.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid \'91.

Note: The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata ), called also browback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (T. alpina ); the purple sandpiper (T.maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. canutus ); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus ); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia ); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis ), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis, or tringoides, hypoleucus ), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.

2. (Zo \'94l.)

Defn: A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew. -- Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.

New American Oxford Dictionary

sandpiper

sand pi per |ˈsan (d )ˌpīpər ˈsæn (d )ˌpaɪpər | ▶noun a wading bird with a long bill and typically long legs, nesting on the ground near water and frequenting coastal areas on migration. [Family Scolopacidae (the sandpiper family ): several genera, esp. Calidris, Tringa, and Actitis, and numerous species, including the western sandpiper (C. mauri ), which breeds on the seashores of Alaska and winters from the southern US to Peru, and the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia ), which prefers lakes and streams and is the most widespread North American sandpiper. The sandpiper family also includes the godwits, curlews, redshanks, turnstones, phalaropes, woodcock, snipe, and ruff. ]

Oxford Dictionary

sandpiper

sand |piper |ˈsan (d )pʌɪpə | ▶noun a wading bird with a long bill and typically long legs, nesting on the ground by water and frequenting coastal areas on migration. ●Family Scolopacidae (the sandpiper family ): several genera, especially Calidris, Tringa, and Actitis, and numerous species. The sandpiper family also includes the godwits, curlews, redshanks, turnstones, phalaropes, woodcock, snipe, and ruff.

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sandpiper

s á nd p ì per 名詞 C 〘鳥〙イソシギ, (その他の )小形シギ .