Sandpiper definitions

sănd'pī'pər
Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.
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Any of a number of small shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) similar to the snipes but distinguished by a shorter, soft-tipped bill, including the common sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos) of Europe and the spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia) and least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) of North America.
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Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.
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Origin of sandpiper

From sand + piper

Sentence Examples

  • The Common Sandpiper is found over the greater part of the Old World.

  • A few varieties of shore birds breed here, as the Western willet, the Bartramian sandpiper, and the longbilled curlew.

  • The broad-billed sandpiper, T.

  • Of the peculiar genera only a few examples may be mentioned: Eurynorhynchus, the spoon-billed sandpiper of Siberia; Syrrhaptes, the sandgrouse of central Asia; Muscicapa of Europe.

  • The spoon-billed sandpiper, Eurinorhynchus pygmaeus, breeds in north-eastern Asia and N.W.

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