green plover

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   large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

   Synonymslapwingpeewitpewit

   Broaderplover

   Part ofVanellus

Questions about green plover

What does green plover mean?

green plover means "large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs".

What is another word for green plover?

Close synonyms include lapwing, peewit, pewit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is green plover a common word?

green plover is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.