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purple sandpipers

purple sandpipers is the plural of purple sandpiper.

Meaning of purple sandpiper

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

Questions about purple sandpipers

What is purple sandpipers the plural of?
Purple sandpipers is the plural of purple sandpiper.

Words near purple sandpipers in the dictionary

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

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