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SHOREBIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
Synonyms:
limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shorebird" is a kind of...):
wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shorebird"):
plover (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)
sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)
Aphriza virgata; surfbird (sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America)
woodcock (game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)
snipe (Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks)
curlew (large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill)
godwit (large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill)
Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird (long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons)
Australian stilt; stilt (long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia)
avocet (long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill)
oyster catcher; oystercatcher (black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.)
phalarope (small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics)
glareole; pratincole (Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers)
courser (swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles)
Burhinus oedicnemus; stone curlew; thick-knee (large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint)
Holonyms ("shorebird" is a member of...):
Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)
