AVOCET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("avocet" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("avocet" is a member of...):

genus Recurvirostra; Recurvirostra (type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets)

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