Definitions for dunlins

dunlins dun·lin

Spelling: [duhn-lin]
IPA: /ˈdʌn lɪn/

Dunlins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in dunlins (dilnnsu).

Definitions for dunlins

noun

  1. a common sandpiper, Calidris alpina, that breeds in the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Origin of dunlins

1525-35; variant of dunling. See dun2, -ling1

Examples for dunlins

The dunlin is absolutely the commonest Limicoline bird of the shore, and certainly the most widely dispersed.

Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin.

Small wading-birds, like ringed plovers and dunlin, commonly fly in “bunches.”

Its note is described as being louder than that of the dunlin.

Pickerel, pik′e-rel, n. an American pike: a wading bird, the dunlin.

He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin.

A name for the dunlin, Tringa alpina, a species of sand-piper frequenting our shores and the banks of rivers in winter.

Redshank, curlew, and dunlin—cousins of the snipe and woodcock—are all accomplished performers in the art of wooing on the wing.

At Kaolak River (July 17, 1951) a dunlin was feeding and flying with a group of four semipalmated sandpipers.

dunlin, a British bird (Tringa alpina), a species of sandpiper, occurring in vast flocks along sandy shores.

Word Value for dunlins
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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