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Definition of Plain wanderer

1. Noun. Small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plain Wanderer

Literary usage of Plain wanderer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... therefore . . . boiled them for about an hour ; the beverage . . . was the best we had tasted on our expedition." plain wanderer, n. an Australian bird, ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... boiled them for about an hour ; the beverage . . . was the best we had tasted on our expedition." plain wanderer, ;/. an Australian bird, ..."

3. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"... Australian species, see Gould's ' Handbook,' &c., TO!, ii. p. 178, 180, 186, and 188. In the British Museum specimens of the Australian Plain-wanderer ..."

4. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... 178, 180, 186, and 188. In the 1867, and A. Murray, 'Journal of British Museum specimens of the Travel/ 1868, p. 83. Australian Plain-wanderer (Pedio* ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"A broad white collar spotted with black surrounds the neck, while a rust-coloured nape and Flo. 43.—" Plain-Wanderer. ..."

6. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... therefore . . . boiled them for about an hour ; the beverage . . . was the best we had tasted on our expedition." plain wanderer, n. an Australian bird, ..."

7. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... boiled them for about an hour ; the beverage . . . was the best we had tasted on our expedition." plain wanderer, ;/. an Australian bird, ..."

8. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. by Charles Darwin (1871)
"... Australian species, see Gould's ' Handbook,' &c., TO!, ii. p. 178, 180, 186, and 188. In the British Museum specimens of the Australian Plain-wanderer ..."

9. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... 178, 180, 186, and 188. In the 1867, and A. Murray, 'Journal of British Museum specimens of the Travel/ 1868, p. 83. Australian Plain-wanderer (Pedio* ..."

10. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"A broad white collar spotted with black surrounds the neck, while a rust-coloured nape and Flo. 43.—" Plain-Wanderer. ..."

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