No lapwing pilfers Lieschen's licorice.
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Lapwing
//ˈlæpwɪŋ//
Synonyms for "lapwing" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
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5 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 49 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bibikinə noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Belarusian
2 entries- кні́гаўка noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- чы́біс noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Bulgarian
1 entries- калу́герица noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Catalan
1 entries- fredeluga noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 田鳧 /田凫 noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Czech
1 entries- čejka noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Danish
1 entries- vibe noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Dutch
2 entries- kieviet noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- kievit noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Esperanto
1 entries- vanelo noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Faroese
1 entries- vípa noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Finnish
1 entries- hyyppä noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
French
1 entries- vanneau noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Galician
3 entries- galdaripo noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- tabuela noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- tamouca noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Georgian
1 entries- პრანწია noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
German
1 entries- Kiebitz noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Greek
1 entries- καλημάνα noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Hungarian
1 entries- bíbic noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Icelandic
1 entries- vepja noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Ido
1 entries- vanelo noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Irish
2 entries- adhaircín noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- pilibín noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Italian
1 entries- vanello noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Japanese
1 entries- タゲリ noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pempė noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- kibut noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Piwitsch noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Maltese
1 entries- venewwa noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Navajo
1 entries- tábąąsdísítsoh noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Norman
1 entries- pievie noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- vipe noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- vipe noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Polish
1 entries- czajka noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Portuguese
1 entries- quero-quero noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਟਟੀਹਰੀ noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Romanian
1 entries- nagâț noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Russian
1 entries- чи́бис noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Samogitian
2 entries- gīvė noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- pīmpė noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Scots
1 entries- teuchat noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- adharcan noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- curracag noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- vivak noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- вивак noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Slovak
1 entries- cíbik noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Spanish
3 entries- avefría noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- queltehue noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- tero noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Swedish
1 entries- vipa noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Tamil
1 entries- ஆட்காட்டி noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Tulu
1 entries- ടിട്ടിഭ noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ча́йка noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
- чи́бис noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Vilamovian
1 entries- kiwic noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Volapük
1 entries- vanul noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Welsh
1 entries- cornicyll noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
West-Frisian
1 entries- ljip noun (bird belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
Source: wiktionary
The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
Source: wiktionary
Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
Source: wiktionary
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