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kapustarinta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dotterel noun A gullible fool, especially an elderly person with impaired faculties.

Senses

kapustarinta is used for these senses in English:

  • dotterel A small brown-and-black bird of species Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family. [from 15th c.]
  • golden plover A migratory plover of the genus Pluvialis, having black underparts and a golden back in the breeding season, now regarded as the three species P. apricaria of Europe, P. fulva of the Pacific coasts, and P. dominica of North America.

dotterel — full definition

  1. noun A gullible fool, especially an elderly person with impaired faculties.
  2. noun A small brown-and-black bird of species Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family.
  3. noun Any of various small birds of Australasia thought to resemble the Eurasian dotterel.

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