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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 bill
Familiarity information: AVOCET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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