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avocet

avocet

English

Alternative forms

avoset

Noun

avocet ‎(plural avocets)

a pied avocet

Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

Derived terms

Translations

bird

Bulgarian: саблеклюн ‎(sablekljun)
Dutch: kluut (nl) m
Finnish: avosetti (fi)
French: avocette (fr) f
Greek: αβοκέτα f ‎(avokéta)
Irish: abhóiséad m

Navajo: jáádtsʼósí
Romanian: cioc-întors (ro) n
Russian: шилоклю́вка (ru) f ‎(šilokljúvka)
Scottish Gaelic: gob-cearr m
Serbo-Croatian: sabljarka (sh) f
Spanish: avoceta f

See also

stilt

Anagrams

octave

Latin

Verb

āvocet

third-person singular present active subjunctive of āvocō