n. 鹬

[ noun ]
any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
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Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
{Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
{Tringid[ae]}.

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
({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the
red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. 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.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

{Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.

{Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.

Pride \Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A small European lamprey ({Petromyzon branchialis}); --
called also {prid}, and {sandpiper}.