(n.) The crab plover (Dromas ardeola), a peculiar North African bird, allied to the oyster catcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) The essential value of the investigation is morphological rather than functional drome.
(2) The settings of Ambrosia development are not only construction zones, waste grounds, road works; a country extension has been observed; more and more varied lands under cultivation (cereals, sunflowers, peach-trees...) are overgrown and the advance, toward South Drome and Ardèche since few years, clearly indicates that all the Rhone Valley is under threat.
(3) As was the atmosphere inside the Estádio Mineirão before kick-off, with a warm, choral wave of Argentinian noise rolling around a stadium that was reupholstered rather than rebuilt; and which has a depth to its stands, a Kop-like noise-funnel that the modern mega-dromes often lack.