plover
/ˈplʌvə(r)/noun
1- a short-billed gregarious wading bird, typically found by water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, and mountains鸻鸟。
1.1
- Family Charadriidae (the plover family): several genera and numerous species, especially the ringed plovers (Charadrius), grey and golden plovers (Pluvialis), and lapwings (Vanellus).鸻科：数属, 众多种, 尤指剑鸻（拉丁名Charadrius）, 灰鸻和金鸻（拉丁名Pluvialis）以及麦鸡属（拉丁名Vanellus）
1.2
- used in names of similar birds in other families, e.g. crab plover［用于其他科类似鸟类的名称中, 如crab plover］。
词源
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French， based on Latin pluvia 'rain'.