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GENUS HIMANTOPUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Himantopus mean? 

GENUS HIMANTOPUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS HIMANTOPUS has 1 sense:

1. major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight billsplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS HIMANTOPUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS HIMANTOPUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Himantopus; Himantopus

Hypernyms ("genus Himantopus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Himantopus"):

Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird (long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons)

black-necked stilt; Himantopus mexicanus (stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck)

black-winged stilt; Himantopus himantopus (stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings)

Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus; white-headed stilt (stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck)

Himantopus novae-zelandiae; kaki (blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt)

Holonyms ("genus Himantopus" is a member of...):

Charadrii; suborder Charadrii (shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews)


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