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avocet
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The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra , of waders in the same avian family as the stilts . The genus name is from Latin recurvus , "curved backwards" and rostrum , "bill". Avocets have long legs and they sweep their long, thin, upcurved ...
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n. long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
Usage examples of avocet.
At the eastern end of the island, the mass of birds, Louisiana herons, pelicans, avocets, sandpipers, egrets, flamingoes and the few roseate spoonbills, went on with building, their nests or fished in the shallow waters of the lake.
Avocet, too, would be wrapped in darkness, though he dared not climb the batture at this point to see.
Phlosine nor Dominique had the slightest interest in the murder of Hesione LeGros and were instead consumed with questions and gossip concerning the baroque details of the Avocet scandal.
The rebel leader Jacinthe strode up the levee, pistol in hand, and grabbed Vivienne Avocet by the arm.
But on the open water birds waded, ancestors of flamingos and avocets, and huge water lilies rested languidly on the surface.