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Kapwing vs Lapwing - What's the difference?

kapwing | lapwing |

As an interjection kapwing

is the sound of something, such as a bullet, ricocheting violently off something else.

As a noun lapwing is

any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily vanellinae within family charadriidae.

kapwing

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • The sound of something, such as a bullet, ricocheting violently off something else.

    • See also

    * kapow * kablam

    lapwing

    English

    (wikipedia lapwing) (Vanellus)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae.
  • * 1986 , Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia , page 149,
    • Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
  • * 2010 , Des Thompson, Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers , page 36,
    • The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
  • * 2010 , Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar , page 244,
    • Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
  • A silly man.
  • * 1602 , , Act V Scene 2,
    • This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.

    Derived terms

    * northern lapwing * See also

    See also

    * plover

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