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Killdee vs Killdeer - What's the difference?

killdee | killdeer | Alternative forms |

Killdeer is a alternative form of killdee.



As nouns the difference between killdee and killdeer

is that killdee is alternative form of lang=en while killdeer is a North American plover (Charadrius vociferus) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.

killdee

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • killdeer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * killdee * kill-deer

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A North American plover (Charadrius vociferus ) with a distinctive cry and territorial behavior that includes feigning injury to distract interlopers from the nest.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 50:
    • A kill-deer , flying so low as to dip its wings, ever and anon alighted on the margin, its stilt-like legs half submerged as it ran hither and thither, now and then bending to dig in the sand with its long slender bill.