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Definition: Tringoides hypoleucus
Sandpiper
\Sand"pi`per\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline
game birds belonging to
Tringa,
Actodromas,
Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family
Tringid[ae].
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Note: The most important North American species are the
pectoral sandpiper (
Tringa maculata), called also
brownback,
grass snipe, and
jacksnipe; the
red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin
(
T. alpina); the purple sandpiper (
T. maritima: the
red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (
T. canutus); the
semipalmated sandpiper (
Ereunetes pusillus); the
spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (
Actitis macularia
); the buff-breasted sandpiper (
Tryngites subruficollis
), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or
upland plover. See under
Upland. Among the European
species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the
sanderling, and the common sandpiper (
Actitis hypoleucus
syn.
Tringoides hypoleucus), called also
fiddler,
peeper,
pleeps,
weet-weet, and
summer snipe
. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also
called sandpipers.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
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Curlew sandpiper. See under
Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under
Stilt.
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Fiddler
\Fid"dler\, n. [AS. fi[eth]elere.]
1. One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A burrowing crab of the genus
Gelasimus, of
many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged,
and often holds it in a position similar to that in which
a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also
fiddler crab,
calling crab,
soldier crab, and
fighting crab.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) The common European sandpiper (
Tringoides hypoleucus
); -- so called because it continually
oscillates its body.
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Fiddler crab. (Zo["o]l.) See
Fiddler, n., 2.
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