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HIMANTOPUS STILT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Himantopus stilt mean?
• HIMANTOPUS STILT (noun)
The noun HIMANTOPUS STILT has 1 sense:
1. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Familiarity information: HIMANTOPUS STILT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird
Hypernyms ("Himantopus stilt" 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 "Himantopus stilt"):
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 ("Himantopus stilt" is a member of...):
genus Himantopus; Himantopus (major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills)
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