Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dunlin

1 sense of dunlin

Sense 1
red-backed sandpiper, dunlin, Erolia alpina -- (small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions)
       => sandpiper -- (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)