LAPWING

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Meaning:

Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

Synonyms:

green plover; lapwing; peewit; pewit

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lapwing" is a kind of...):

plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

Holonyms ("lapwing" is a member of...):

genus Vanellus; Vanellus (Eurasian lapwings)

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