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

1 sense of killdeer

Sense 1
killdeer, kildeer, killdeer plover, Charadrius vociferus -- (American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry)
       => plover -- (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)