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Definition of Dunlin
1. Noun. Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions.
Generic synonyms: Sandpiper
Group relationships: Erolia, Genus Erolia
Definition of Dunlin
1. n. A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Definition of Dunlin
1. Noun. A small wading bird, ''Calidris alpina'', found along the coast and with a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunlin
1. a wading bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dunlin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunlin
Literary usage of Dunlin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"JAA Chapman on Changes of Plumage in the dunlin and Sanderling.1— There is no
uncertain ring about the present paper. It boldly challenges certain ..."
2. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1857)
"PURRE OR dunlin. TRINGA VARIABILIS. THE Purre and dunlin, as these birds were
formerly called, have many years since been proved to be one and the same bird ..."
3. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THIS species, known all round our coast by some one or more of the following
names :—viz., dunlin,f Purre (Sir Thomas Browne writes it, Churr), Stint, ..."
4. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1855)
"dunlin SANDPIPER. SEA SNIPE. PLOVER'S PAGE. STINT. LEAST SNIPE. ... THE dunlin,
or Purre, the former the name that used to be given to the bird in its ..."
5. The Evolution of Bird-song, with Observations on the Influence of Heredity by Charles A Witchell (1896)
"In March 1889 I was staying at Weston-super- Mare, at which place the thrushes
abundantly imitated the dunlin, there a common and noisy bird throughout the ..."
6. Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works by Thomas Bewick, Austin Dobson (1885)
"The dunlin, with others of the same genus, appears in great numbers on the
sea-shores, in various parts of Great Britain, during the winter season: they run ..."
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