Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Grallatores or wading birds; wading; long-legged, like a wader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to wading birds.
Etymologies
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From Latin grallator
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{242} This is preferred to grallatorial, as more comprehensively descriptive.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
reesetee commented on the word grallatorial
Belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, such as snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs.
September 2, 2008