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charadriid (plural charadriids)

  1. (ornithology) A bird of the taxonomic family Charadriidae.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:
      Darting among the penguins on the foreshore are little charadriids, members of the plover and lapwing family who feed on the insects that the massed animals attract [] .