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plovery

plovery adjective: full of plovers.

Adjective

plovery (comparative more plovery, superlative most plovery)

  1. Full of plovers.
    • The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Andrew Lang”, in A child's garden of verses, page 117
    • And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore.2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons, page 80
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
    • […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […]1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Forms of plovery

comparativemore plovery
superlativemost plovery

Origin of plovery

From plover + -y.

Questions about plovery

What does plovery mean?
Plovery means full of plovers.
What part of speech is plovery?
Plovery is an adjective.

Words near plovery in the dictionary

  1. plovered
  2. plovering
  3. ploverlike
  4. ploverness
  5. plovers
  6. plovery
  7. plovs
  8. plow
  9. plow ahead
  10. plow back
  11. plow down

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