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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
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics
Classified under:
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)
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