PHALAROPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phalarope mean? 

• PHALAROPE (noun)
  The noun PHALAROPE has 1 sense:

1. small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHALAROPE (noun)

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Meaning:

Small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phalarope"):

Phalaropus fulicarius; red phalarope (phalarope of northern oceans and lakes)

Lobipes lobatus; northern phalarope (breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds; large flocks often seen far out at sea)

Steganopus tricolor; Wilson's phalarope (breeds on the northern great plains of Canada)

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

family Phalaropidae; Phalaropidae (phalaropes)