green plover

noun

British.

1. lapwing.

green plover

noun

1. another name for lapwing

Word History and Origins

Origin of green plover¹

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Outside the castle, the starlings and green plover searched anxiously in the stiff grass.

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Large numbers of green plover were bagged from time to time, and often in winter we had a chance at their grey cousins, the whistling species.

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Marcus is a typical Sutcliff hero, a dutiful Roman who is increasingly drawn to the British world of "other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling".

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I have seen peewits or green plovers in the same field, which is now about to be built on.

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The only kind of plover in the Forest is the green plover or lapwing, which were very numerous at one time in the p. 205wet greens. 

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