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purple sandpiper

purple sandpiper noun: a type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.

Noun

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

  1. A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
    • Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 11

Forms of purple sandpiper

pluralpurple sandpipers

Questions about purple sandpiper

What does purple sandpiper mean?
Purple sandpiper means a type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
What part of speech is purple sandpiper?
Purple sandpiper is a noun.
What is the plural of purple sandpiper?
The plural of purple sandpiper is purple sandpipers.

Words near purple sandpiper in the dictionary

  1. purple prairie clovers
  2. purple prose
  3. purple quartz
  4. purple rice
  5. purple rices
  6. purple sandpiper
  7. purple sandpipers
  8. purple shirt of sex
  9. purple sock
  10. purple socks
  11. purple spurge

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