Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sand martin

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: sand -martin
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, Riparia riparia.

Example Sentences

"1668, John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: Sa. Gellibrand and John Martyn, Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 151, SAND-MARTIN, Shore-bird."
"1774, Gilbert White, Letter 20 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, p. 175, The only instance I ever remember where this species haunts any building is at the town of Bishop’s Waltham, in this county, where many sand-martins nestle and breed in the scaffold-holes of the back-wall of William of Wykeham’s stables:"
"The position was perched on a sort of razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like sand-martins’ nests."
"The sandmartins’ nests were loopholes of darkness in the riverbank."

Inflected Forms

sand martins (plural)

Phrases

brown-throated martin pale sand martin

Synonyms

bank swallow collared sand martin European sand martin bank martin riparia riparia

Questions

What does sand martin mean?: A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family, Riparia riparia.

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