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nounlong-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving billtype of:
Definition that contains avocet
- suborder charadrii shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews
- charadrii shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews
- genus recurvirostra type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets
- cladorhyncus one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills
- himantopus major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills
- genus cladorhyncus one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills
- recurvirostra type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets
- genus himantopus major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills