kəˈradrēəs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, a bird, perhaps the thick-knee, from Greek charadrios, from charadra ravine; akin to Greek charassein to sharpen, cut into furrows — more at character
: a genus (the type of the family Charadriidae) of plovers comprising small or medium-sized birds (as the piping plover) but sometimes (as formerly) including also the golden plovers