Definition of Charadrius melodus

1. Noun. Small plover of eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Piping Plover
Generic synonyms: Plover
Group relationships: Charadrius, Genus Charadrius

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charadrius Melodus

Chaplinesque
Chapman
Chapman's antshrike
Chapman code
Chapultepec
Char
Chara
Characeae
Characean algae
Characidae
Characinidae
Charadrii
Charadriidae
Charadriiformes
Charadrius
Charadrius melodus (current term)
Charadrius morinellus
Charadrius vociferus
Charales
Charcot
Charcot's arteries
Charcot's disease
Charcot's gait
Charcot's intermittent fever
Charcot's syndrome
Charcot's triad
Charcot's vertigo
Charcot-Bottcher crystalloids
Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm
Charcot-Leyden crystals

Literary usage of Charadrius melodus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Charadrius hiaticula, var., Wilson. Amer. Orn. vp 30, pi. 37. tie. 8 (1812). Charadrius melodus, Ord in Wilsons Amer. Orn. vii. p. 71 (1824) ; pi. ..."

2. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"... circumcincta Ridgway become Charadrius semipalmatus (Bonaparte) and Charadrius melodus Ord. Mathews, Nov. Zool., 1911, 5. 105. ..."

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