purple sandpiper

purple sandpiper

English

Noun

purple sandpiper (plural purple sandpipers)

1. A type of sandpiper, Calidris maritima.
   • 2011, Victoria Cribb, translating Sjón, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011, p. 11:

     Importunate with his own kind, garrulous with others…So might one describe the purple sandpiper and so men describe me…

Translations

Calidris maritima

Catalan: territ fosc m Faroese: grágrælingur m, grælingur m Finnish: merisirri (fi) Greenlandic: sissarmiutaq Icelandic: sendlingur (is) Irish: gobadán cosbhuí m Lule Sami: fiervvatjoavtjoj Northern Sami: fierváviroš Norwegian: fjæreplytt Skolt Sami: reddviârvvaž Slovak: pobrežník morský Swedish: skärsnäppa (sv) c