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