plover

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈplʌvə/    美 /ˈplʌvɚ/|/ˈploʊvɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
  2. A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles). Australia
动词 v.
  1. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
    — Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.
  2. To hunt for plover.
    — Gentlemen often came from Dublin, and payed me for going into the Channel with them a plovering and fishing, and going aboard of Ships in the Bay; but once among the rest, some of these Chaps came to hire my Smack, to go into the Bay, which I let them have to my Sorrow;
  3. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
    — Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.

词形变化

plovers plural plover plural plovers present,singular,third-person plovering participle,present plovered participle,past plovered past

词汇关系

衍生词
American golden plover Bartramina plover bastard plover beach plover black-bellied plover black-breasted plover blacksmith plover black-winged plover bull-head plover calico plover Caspian plover chestnut-banded plover collared plover crab plover crab-plover double-banded plover Egyptian plover Eurasian golden plover goggle-eyed plover golden plover grass plover gray plover grey plover green plover hill plover Kentish plover lark-plover little ringed plover Magellanic plover masked plover Norfolk plover piping plover plovercrest ploverlike ploverness plovery quail-plover ringed plover ring plover rock plover sand plover sea plover semipalmated plover shore plover snowy plover sociable plover spurwing plover spur-winged plover St Helena plover stone plover Swiss plover upland plover whistling plover white-crowned plover white-tailed plover Wilson's plover wry-billed plover yellow plover

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
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