資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
   1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
      game birds belonging to {Tringa}, {Actodromas},
      {Ereunetes}, and various allied genera of the family
      {Tringid[ae]}.

   Note: The most important North American species are the
         pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}), called also
         {brownback}, {grass snipe}, and {jacksnipe}; the
         red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
         ({T. alpina}); the purple sandpiper ({T. maritima}: the
         red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({T. canutus}); the
         semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus}); the
         spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis
         macularia}); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites
         subruficollis}), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or
         upland plover. See under {Upland}. Among the European
         species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
         sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis, or
         Tringoides, hypoleucus}), called also {fiddler},
         {peeper}, {pleeps}, {weet-weet}, and {summer snipe}.
         Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called
         sandpipers.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.

   {Curlew sandpiper}. See under {Curlew}.

   {Stilt sandpiper}. See under {Stilt}.

Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[^u]r"l[=u]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu,
   courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus
   courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A wading bird of the genus {Numenius}, remarkable for its
   long, slender, curved bill.

   Note: The common European curlew is {N. arquatus}. The
         long-billed ({N. longirostris}), the Hudsonian ({N.
         Hudsonicus}), and the Eskimo curlew ({N. borealis}, are
         American species. The name is said to imitate the note
         of the European species.

   {Curlew Jack} (Zo["o]l.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew.

   {Curlew sandpiper} (Zo["o]l.), a sandpiper ({Tringa
      ferruginea, or subarquata}), common in Europe, rare in
      America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved
      bill. See Illustation in Appendix.

資料來源 : WordNet®

curlew sandpiper
     n : Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew [syn: {Calidris
         Ferruginea}]