Definitions for upland sandpiper
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
up′land sand′piper(n.)
a short-billed North American sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of grasslands and cultivated fields.
Category: Ornithology
Origin of upland sandpiper:
1825–35
Princeton's WordNet
upland sandpiper, upland plover, Bartramian sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda(noun)
large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands
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