| slovo | definícia |
Tringa alpina
(gcide) | Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringidae.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also
brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa
maritima}: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa
canutus}); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes
pusillus}); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail
(Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian
sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among
the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the
ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus),
called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet,
and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and
tattlers are also called sandpipers.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
[1913 Webster]
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
[1913 Webster] |
Tringa alpina
(gcide) | Dunlin \Dun"lin\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill
(E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zool.)
A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also
churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper.
It is found both in Europe and America.
[1913 Webster] |
| |