Usually means: Bird known for distraction displays.
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  1. killdeer: Merriam-Webster
  2. killdeer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. killdeer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. killdeer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. killdeer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Killdeer, killdeer: Wordnik
  7. killdeer: Wiktionary
  8. killdeer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. killdeer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. killdeer: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. killdeer: Dictionary.com
  12. killdeer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Killdeer (disambiguation), Killdeer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Killdeer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. killdeer: Rhymezone
  16. Killdeer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. KILLDEER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. killdeer: FreeDictionary.org
  19. killdeer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. killdeer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Killdeer (bird), killdeer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See killdeers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (killdeer)

noun:  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.

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