Translation for '
lapwing' from English to Hungarian
NOUN | a lapwing | lapwings | |
SYNO | green plover | lapwing | peewit | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In Europe's Anglophone countries, "lapwing" refers specifically to the northern lapwing, the only member of this group to occur in most of the continent and thus the first bird to go by the English name "lapwing" (also known as "peewit" or "pyewipe").
- During the Middle Ages, classical descriptions of the hoopoe were mistaken for descriptions of the lapwing, on account of the lapwing's prominent crest, and the hoopoe's rarity in England, resulting in "lapwing" being listed in certain bible translations instead of "hoopoe".
- The lake supports nationally important numbers of great cormorant (averaging around 200) and notable concentrations of whooper swan, wigeon, teal, mallard, grey heron and lapwing.
- The Javan lapwing ("Vanellus macropterus") also known as Javanese lapwing and Javanese wattled lapwing is (or was) a wader in the lapwing family.
- The African wattled lapwing ("Vanellus senegallus"), also known as the Senegal wattled plover or simply wattled lapwing, is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
- For example, the large and very common Australian bird traditionally known as the ‘spur-winged plover’, is now the masked lapwing; the former ‘sociable plover’ is now the sociable lapwing.
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