: a large plover (Squatarola squatarola or Charadrius squatarola) highly esteemed as a game bird that breeds in the arctic regions of both continents but winters in Africa and So. America and differs from related birds in its jet-black throat and underparts when in breeding plumage
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/blak"bel'eed/
a large plover, Pluvialis squatarola, of both the New and Old Worlds, having black underparts when in nuptial plumage.
[1805-15, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.