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green plover en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK) The lapwing.
2. Synonym of golden plover.
   • The Green PLOVER is about the bigness of a Lapwing, the colour of the whole upper side is black, thick set with yellowish green spots; the breast brown, spotted with yellowish green; the belly white. 1795, Thomas Boreman, A description of above three hundred animals, page 141:
   • THE GREEN PLOVER (Plate 72.) Is rather larger than a Lapwing, and weighs about nine ounces. 1810, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, page 131:

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Synonyms

golden plover