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AVOCET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avocet mean? 

AVOCET (noun)
  The noun AVOCET has 1 sense:

1. long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving billplay

  Familiarity information: AVOCET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AVOCET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("avocet" is a kind of...):

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)

Holonyms ("avocet" is a member of...):

genus Recurvirostra; Recurvirostra (type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets)


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