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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plover-like birds, of the family Aphrizidæ, related to the oyster-catchers and turnstones, having feet with four toes like the latter, and the general appearance and changes of plumage of the sandpipers. It contains only the surf-bird, A. virgata. See
surf-bird .
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- noun a genus of Scolopacidae
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