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# plover

«plover» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bird with a short beak, that lives on open land and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plover, plovers)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.