charadriid
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]charadriid (plural charadriids)
- (ornithology) A bird of the taxonomic family Charadriidae.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:
- Darting among the penguins on the foreshore are little charadriids, members of the plover and lapwing family who feed on the insects that the massed animals attract […] .