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