Usually means: Medium-sized bird with crest.
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  1. lapwing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lapwing: Merriam-Webster
  3. lapwing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lapwing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lapwing: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Lapwing, lapwing: Wordnik
  8. lapwing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lapwing: Wiktionary
  10. lapwing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lapwing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lapwing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lapwing, lapwing: Dictionary.com
  14. lapwing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lapwing (disambiguation), Lapwing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lapwing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lapwing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lapwing: Rhymezone
  19. Lapwing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lapwing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Lapwing: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. lapwing: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lapwing: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. lapwing: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Lapwing: Easton Bible
  2. Lapwing: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lapwing)

▸ noun:  Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.
▸ noun:  The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
▸ noun:  A silly man.

Similar:
green plover, pewit, peewit, plover, southern lapwing, flopwing, northern lapwing, white-crowned plover, masked lapwing, wipe, more...

Opposite:
Unfortunately

Types:
plover, dotterel, oystercatcher, avocet, pipit, sandpiper, snipe, godwit, more...

Phrases:
wattled lapwing, northern lapwing, masked lapwing, southern lapwing, sociable lapwing, more...

Adjectives:
wanton, wattled, winged, crested, common, southern, european, argentine, beautiful, eurasian, young
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Similar:
green plover, pewit, peewit, plover, southern lapwing, flopwing, northern lapwing, white-crowned plover, masked lapwing, wipe, more...

Opposite:
Unfortunately

Types:
plover, dotterel, oystercatcher, avocet, pipit, sandpiper, snipe, godwit, more...

Phrases:
wattled lapwing, northern lapwing, masked lapwing, southern lapwing, sociable lapwing, spur-winged lapwing, white-tailed lapwing, Red-wattled lapwing, more...

Adjectives:
wanton, wattled, winged, crested, common, southern, european, argentine, beautiful, eurasian, young



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