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

1 sense of sanderling

Sense 1
sanderling, Crocethia alba -- (small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world)
       => sandpiper -- (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)