Meanings
nounploverness (uncountable)
- nonce worduncountableThe essence of what it means to be a plover; the qualities that make a plover what it is.
The ploverness of this bird. One preened, another fed, most were just static, daydreaming.
2017, Rosamond Richardson, Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life1 more example
He has no problem with Graves painting “what he feels about what he sees,” but for Peterson, it just doesn't work with birds: “The critic will ask 'isn't it just the very essence of ploverness?' My answer is 'hardly; I know too damn much about plovers.'"
2007, Douglas Carlson, Roger Tory Peterson: A Biography, University of Texas Press, page 200
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ploverness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ploverness
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