Lapwing vs Lapling - What's the difference?
lapwing | lapling |
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 ,
* 2010 , Des Thompson, Ingvar Byrkjedal, Tundra Plovers ,
* 2010 , Clive Finlayson, Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar ,
A silly man.
* 1602 , , Act V Scene 2,
(derogatory, archaic) One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between lapwing and lapling
is that lapwing is any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae while lapling is one who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and sensual delights.lapwing
English
(wikipedia lapwing) (Vanellus)Noun
(en noun)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.
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.
page 244,
- Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
- This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.