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# plover

noun (plover, plovers)

«plover» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A plover is a bird with a short beak, that lives on open land and often flies in flocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales birds fly in lines: swans in an oblique line, cranes in a triangle, and plovers in a curved line like a snake

### Examples

- The plovers fly in a curved line like a snake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/#x1)
- We saw a flock of plovers on the marsh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/#x2)
- The plovers will start their flight when the weather turns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «plover» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«plover» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/plover.html) on Mova free.