lapwing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English hlēapewince, from hlēapan (“to leap”) + *winc- ("sway, totter") (because of its manner of flight). The modern form is influenced by folk etymology.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lapwing (plural lapwings)
- Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
- 1986, Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149,
- Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
- 2010, Des Thompson, Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers, page 36,
- The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
- 2010, Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar, page 244,
- Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
- 1986, Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149,
- A silly man.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V Scene 2,
- This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V Scene 2,
Derived terms[edit]
- African wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- Andean lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
- banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
- black-headed lapwing (Vanellus tectus)
- black-winged lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus)
- blacksmith lapwing (Vanellus armatus)
- brown-chested lapwing (Vanellus superciliosus)
- cayenne lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
- crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
- gray-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
- gray lapwing (Pluvialis squatarola, syn. Squatarola cinerea)
- Javan lapwing (Vanellus macropterus)
- long-toed lapwing (Vanellus crassirostris)
- masked lapwing (Vanellus miles)
- northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
- pied lapwing (Vanellus cayanus)
- red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
- river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
- Senegal lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
- southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis, syn. Vanellus cayennensis)
- spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus)
- spur-winged lapwing (Vanellus spinosus)
- wattled lapwing (Vanellus senegallus)
- white-crowned lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
- white-headed lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
- white-tailed lapwing (Vanellus leucurus)
- yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)
- See also
Lapwing#List of species in taxonomic order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations[edit]
bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae
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