SANDERLING


Meaning of SANDERLING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsan-dər-liŋ ]

noun

Etymology: sand + -erling, perhaps from Old English yrthling, kind of bird found in fields, literally, plowman, from yrth, earth plowing, from erian to plow — more at arable

Date: 1602

: a small widely distributed sandpiper ( Calidris alba ) with pale gray and white plumage in winter

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