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sand-martins

sand-martins is the plural of sand-martin.

Meaning of sand-martin

Noun

sand-martin (plural sand-martins)

  1. a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.
    • But the red light was on the columns of the Parthenon, and the Greek women who were knitting their stockings and sometimes crying to a child to come and have the insects picked from its head were as jolly as sand-martins in the heat, quarrelling, scolding, suckling their babies, until the ships in...1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 172

Questions about sand-martins

What is sand-martins the plural of?
Sand-martins is the plural of sand-martin.

Words near sand-martins in the dictionary

  1. sand-hopper
  2. sand-hoppers
  3. sand-jet
  4. sand-jets
  5. sand-martin
  6. sand-martins
  7. sand-myrtle
  8. sand-natter
  9. sand-natters
  10. sand-nigger
  11. sand-niggers

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