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sanderling

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sand=er=ling

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sanderling has 1 sense

sanderling(n = noun.animal) crocethia alba - small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world; Array

is a kind of sandpiper

is a member of crocethia, genus crocethia

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sanderling, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the seashore.].

A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sanderling, n. a small wading bird, Calidris alba, of the sandpiper family.

Etymology

perh. f. an OE form sandyrthling (unrecorded, as SAND + yrthling ploughman, also the name of a bird)

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