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kill-deer

kill-deer is the alternative form of killdeer.

Meaning of killdeer

Noun

killdeer (plural killdeers or killdeer)

  1. A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to attract predators and spare the young in the nest.
    • A kill-deer, flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 50

Forms of kill-deer

pluralkill-deers

Questions about kill-deer

What is kill-deer the alternative form of?
Kill-deer is the alternative form of killdeer.

Words near kill-deer in the dictionary

  1. kill-courtesy
  2. kill-cow
  3. kill-cows
  4. kill-death ratio
  5. kill-death ratios
  6. kill-deer
  7. kill-deers
  8. kill-devil
  9. kill-file
  10. kill-joy
  11. kill-joys

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