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upland sandpiper

noun

  1. a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of upland sandpiper1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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