Plovers are a group of similar birds. They are mostly small to medium shorebirds with a short, straight beak and neat, compact body. They live along beaches, mudflats, and other open coastal or inland water areas. Many plovers are known for their calm, watchful behavior and their habit of staying still to blend in with their surroundings.
A plough is a device for breaking up the soil in a field or garden before crops are planted. Ploughing the soil makes it softer and easier for plants to grow, and turns the soil over so any vegetation leftover from an earlier crop will go underground and add nutrients to the soil.
Ploughs used to make one furrow at a time and were pulled by horses like in the picture. Today they can make dozens of furrows at a time and are pulled by tractors.
An alternative spelling of plow is plough.
You pluck something by pulling it off at the growing point. People commonly pluck out hairs from their eyebrows, pluck fruit from a tree or vine, or most commonly pluck the feathers from a bird like a chicken to prepare it for cooking. The chicken in the picture has been plucked everywhere except its wings.
Plucking can also describe a short, sharp way of playing an instrument like a guitar, or even be used as another word for courage, as in "he has a lot of pluck".
Something is plucked if it has had all the hair or feathers pulled out of it. Plucked is also the past tense of pluck.
Scientific name: prunus domestica
