Oxeye \Ox"eye`\, n. [Ox + eye.]

1. (Bot.)
   (a) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
   (b) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
   (c) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.

2. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. c[oe]ruleus). [Prov. Eng.]


   (b) The dunlin.
   (c) A fish; the bogue, or box.

Creeping oxeye (Bot.) a West Indian composite plant (Wedelia carnosa).

Seaside oxeye (Bot.), a West Indian composite shrub (Borrichia arborescens).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Plover \Plov"er\, n. [OF. plovier, F. pluvier, prop., the rain bird, fr. LL. (assumed) pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain; akin to E. float, G. fliessen to flow. See Float.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadrid[ae], and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrins[ae]. They are prized as game birds.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

Note: Among the more important species are the blackbellied, or blackbreasted, plover (Charadrius squatarola) of America and Europe; -- called also gray plover, bull-head plover, Swiss plover, sea plover, and oxeye; the golden plover (see under Golden); the ring or ringed plover ([AE]gialitis hiaticula). See Ringneck. The piping plover ([AE]gialitis meloda); Wilson's plover ([AE]. Wilsonia); the mountain plover ([AE]. montana); and the semipalmated plover ([AE]. semipalmata), are all small American species.

Bastard plover (Zo["o]l.), the lapwing.

Long-legged, or yellow-legged, plover. See Tattler.

Plover's page, the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]

Rock plover, or Stone plover, the black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]

Whistling plover.
   (a) The golden plover.
   (b) The black-bellied plover.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)