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Definition of Pluvialis
1. Noun. Golden plovers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Charadriidae, Family Charadriidae
Member holonyms: Golden Plover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluvialis
Literary usage of Pluvialis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OP Pluvialis. a. Axillare and under wing-coverts
white. (Europe and western Asia, south in winter to northern Africa, ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1893)
"Line forming a row of elliptical blue spots. A slight subdorsal orange band, -
fragilis, Str. A heavy orange band, - pluvialis, Dyar. ..."
3. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4 by William Jardine (1866)
"... has no white on the forehead, and very few light markings on the crown or
centre of the back. THE GOLDEN PLOVER, SQUATAROLA Pluvialis. ..."
4. Textbook of Elementary Biology by Henry Johnstone Campbell (1893)
"... or Haematococcus pluvialis, is not quite so common, but it is very frequently
found in water-butts, shallow pools, etc.; ..."
5. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OP Pluvialis. a. Axillare and under wing-coverts
white. (Europe and western Asia, south in winter to northern Africa, ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1893)
"Line forming a row of elliptical blue spots. A slight subdorsal orange band, -
fragilis, Str. A heavy orange band, - pluvialis, Dyar. ..."
7. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4 by William Jardine (1866)
"... has no white on the forehead, and very few light markings on the crown or
centre of the back. THE GOLDEN PLOVER, SQUATAROLA Pluvialis. ..."
8. Textbook of Elementary Biology by Henry Johnstone Campbell (1893)
"... or Haematococcus pluvialis, is not quite so common, but it is very frequently
found in water-butts, shallow pools, etc.; ..."
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