Definitions for dunlin

dunlin dun·lin

Spelling: [duhn-lin]
IPA: /ˈdʌn lɪn/

Dunlin is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in dunlin (dilnnu).

Definitions for dunlin

noun

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

Origin of dunlin

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

Examples for dunlin

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for dunlin
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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