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sandpiper

30 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. sandpiper (noun)
  2. Baird's sandpiper (noun)
  3. Bartramian sandpiper (noun)
  4. Bartram's sandpiper (noun)
  5. black-bellied sandpiper (noun)
  6. Bonaparte's sandpiper (noun)
  7. broad-billed sandpiper (noun)
  8. buff-breasted sandpiper (noun)
  9. curlew sandpiper (noun)
  10. green sandpiper (noun)
  11. least sandpiper (noun)
  12. pectoral sandpiper (noun)
  13. purple sandpiper (noun)
  14. red-backed sandpiper (noun)
  15. red-breasted sandpiper (noun)
  16. red sandpiper (noun)
  17. robin sandpiper (noun)
  18. sea sandpiper (noun)
  19. semipalmated sandpiper (noun)
  20. sharp-tailed sandpiper (noun)
  21. solitary sandpiper (noun)
  22. spoon-billed sandpiper (noun)
  23. spotted sandpiper (noun)
  24. stilt sandpiper (noun)
  25. swimming sandpiper (noun)
  26. upland sandpiper (noun)
  27. western sandpiper (noun)
  28. white-rumped sandpiper (noun)
  29. wood sandpiper (noun)
  30. upland plover (noun)

sand·pip·er

noun \-ˌpī-pər\

Definition of SANDPIPER

: any of various small shorebirds (family Scolopacidae, the sandpiper family) distinguished from the related plovers chiefly by the longer and soft-tipped bill
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First Known Use of SANDPIPER

1674

Rhymes with SANDPIPER

bagpiper, pied piper, pit viper

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