Crossword-Solution: PLOVER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plover | n. | Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds. |
| Plover | n. | Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PLOVER (5)
She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun.
Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road.
Lord bless us! it _was_ a Diamond! As large, or nearly, as a plover’s egg! The light that streamed from it was like the light of the harvest moon.
Then Ralph looked round upon the land, which had now worsened again, and was little better than rough moorland, little fed, and not at all tilled, and he said: "This is but a sorry land for earth's increase." "Well," said the captain, "I wot not; it beareth plover and whimbrel and conies and hares; yea, and men withal, some few.
She looked down the long table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plover, to his wife, at the opposite end of the long bank of orchids, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller’s window lit by electricity.
Quotes with PLOVER (1)
If we were walking here together, I’d point out the carnivorous plants that grow on this spot: sundews with sticky red leaves, eating insects to sustain them because the soil is so poor. If you were with me, I’d take you to the Doubler Stones, where thousands of years ago, Neolithic peoples carved channels in the rock to drain away the blood from their sacrifices. I would show you where the plover nests, and the green hairstreak butterfly lays its eggs. I love this place. I l…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1953–2020).