green plover
Noun

green plover (plural green plovers)

  1. (British) The lapwing.
    • 1810, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (page 131)
      THE GREEN PLOVER (Plate 72.)
      Is rather larger than a Lapwing, and weighs about nine ounces.



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