black-bellied plover

[blak-bel-eed]

black-bel·lied plov·er

[blak-bel-eed]
noun
a large plover, Pluvialis squatarola, of both the New and Old Worlds, having black underparts when in nuptial plumage.

Origin:
1805–15, Americanism
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