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Decayed vs Dotterel - What's the difference?

decayed | dotterel |

As adjectives the difference between decayed and dotterel

is that decayed is having decayed while dotterel is decayed.

As a verb decayed

is past tense of decay.

As a noun dotterel is

any of various small birds in the plover family Charadriidae, and sometimes used interchangeably with "plover".

decayed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having decayed.
    • The decayed remains of the pilot's shirt showed where the plane had been shot down.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (decay)

    • dotterel

    English

    Noun

    (dotterels)
  • Any of various small birds in the plover family Charadriidae, and sometimes used interchangeably with "plover".
  • A gullible fool.

    • Derived terms

    * Black-fronted Dotterel, Elseyornis melanops * Eurasian Dotterel, Charadrius morinellus * Hooded Dotterel, Thinornis rubricollis * Inland Dotterel, ''Charadrius australis * Red-kneed Dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus * Shore Dotterel, Thinornis novaeseelandiae * Tawny-throated Dotterel, Oreopholus ruficollis

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • decayed
  • * Ascham
    • some old dotterel trees