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

1 sense of lapwing

Sense 1
lapwing, green plover, peewit, pewit -- (large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs)
       => plover -- (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)