green plover

English

Noun

green plover (plural green plovers)

1. (British) The lapwing.
2. Synonym of golden plover
   • 1795, Thomas Boreman, A description of above three hundred animals, page 141:

     The Green PLOVER is about the bigness of a Lapwing, the colour of the whole upper side is black, thick set with yellowish green spots; the breast brown, spotted with yellowish green; the belly white.

   • 1810, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, page 131:

     THE GREEN PLOVER (Plate 72.)
     Is rather larger than a Lapwing, and weighs about nine ounces.