Definitions for plovers

plovers plov·er

Spelling: [pluhv-er, ploh-ver]
IPA: /ˈplʌv ər, ˈploʊ vər/

Plovers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in plovers (eloprsv).

Definitions for plovers

noun

  1. any of various shorebirds of the family Charadriidae. Compare dotterel (def 1), killdeer, lapwing.
  2. any of various similar shorebirds, as the upland plover and other sandpipers.

Origin of plovers

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French plovier rainbird Vulgar Latin *pluviārius. See pluvial, -er2

Examples for plovers

The plover, as his cry indicates, is a very melancholy bird.

"Nothing unusual," replied the colonel, shelling a plover's egg.

On the way I stumbled on the nest of a plover, with one egg in it.

She was really ill; her face, indeed, became the colour of a plover's egg.

Now and again the peep of the prairie chick or the call of the plover came to their ears.

The plover, indeed, is still with us, but in numbers lessening every year.

Raise his legs, wings and his shoulders as a plover, and no sauce but salt.

Upon this were hundreds of wild geese, plover, and pelicans.

"A basket of plover's eggs," said the Headman of Half-a-Loaf.

The engineer, followed by plover and Warren, went down to his post.

Word Value for plovers
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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