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6 words match “BARTRAM”

BARTRAM n.
See Bertram. Johnson.
ARBUSTIVE a.
Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.
FORESIGHTED a.
Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future. Bartram.
HOMMOCK n.
A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.
PLOVER n.
ling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.
UPLAND a.
See Moccasin. -- Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prair…