Bartramian sandpiper

noun

upland sandpiper.

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Origin:
1805–15, Americanism; named after John Bartram; see -ian

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bartramian sandpiper
noun
large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands [syn: upland sandpiper]

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