plover: [14] Etymologically, the plover is the ‘rain-bird’. Its name comes via Anglo-Norman plover from Vulgar Latin *ploviārius, a derivative of Latin pluvia ‘rain’ (source of French pluie, Italian pioggia, and Spanish Iluvia ‘rain’ and related to English flow). Various theories have been put forward as to how it came to be so called, among them that migrating plovers arrive in autumn, at the start of the rainy season; that plovers get restless at the approach of rain; and that some species have plumage spotted with pale marks, like raindrops. => flow, pluvial
plover (n.)
c. 1300, from Anglo-French plover, Old French pluvier, earlier plovier (c. 1200), from Vulgar Latin *plovarius, literally "belonging to rain," from Latin pluvia "rain (water)" from pluere "to rain," from PIE root *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Perhaps so called because the birds' migration arrival coincides with the start of the rainy season, or from its supposed restlessness when rain approaches.
例文
1. The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance.
救急隊員2人は速やかにプロローバーを担架に乗せて救急車に運び込んだ。
2.He wondered if the plover was the fastest bird.
千鳥が一番速い鳥かどうか知りたいと思っている。
3.American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
アメリカ内陸水域と牧場のヒヨドリの鳴き声は特に.
4. It made landfall at Plover Cove reservoir at 3 pm.
(?風）は午後3時に船湾淡水湖に上陸した。
5. Plover Cove Reservoir.The location of the Project is shown in Figure 1 of this Permit.