Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Recurvirostra, family Recurvirostridæ, and order Limicolæ, characterized by extreme slenderness and upward curvature of the bill, and by very long legs and webbed toes.
- noun A humming-bird of the genus Avocetta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
avocet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
grallatorial bird , of the genusRecurvirostra ; thescooper . The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip.
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Examples
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One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward.
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And there on the bank Hugo saw his first avoset or
A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger
chained_bear commented on the word avoset
a.k.a. avocet
August 26, 2008