limicoline bird

Found in thesaurus: wader, wading bird

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limicoline bird

Noun
1. any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
(synonym) shorebird, shore bird
(hypernym) wading bird, wader
(hyponym) plover
(member-holonym) Charadrii, suborder Charadrii