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terek
CIDE DICTIONARY
terek, n. [Because found on the Terek River in the Caucasus.].
A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea ) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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