Home › Words › D › dunlindunlindunlin means A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dunlin ranks #7,707 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyA diminutive of dun.nounA small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.sanderling 69% match — A small wading bird, of species Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world. vs dunlin →purre 66% match — A bird, the dunlin. vs dunlin →dulwilly 63% match — The ringed plover. vs dunlin →stilter 62% match — Any long-legged wading bird. vs dunlin →calidrid 61% match — Any wader of the genus Calidris vs dunlin →sandpiper 58% match — Any of various small waders of the family Scolopacidae. vs dunlin →curlew 58% match — Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills. vs dunlin →dovekie 57% match — A small black and white seabird, of the genus Alle, of the north Atlantic; the little auk. vs dunlin →