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AUSTRALIAN STILT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia

Synonyms:

Australian stilt; stilt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Australian stilt" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Australian stilt"):

banded stilt; Cladorhyncus leucocephalum (web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings)

Holonyms ("Australian stilt" is a member of...):

Cladorhyncus; genus Cladorhyncus (one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills)

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