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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to shorebirds, especially the plovers, sandpipers, and phalaropes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living on or in mud; specifically, of or pertaining to the Limicolæ, in either sense of that word. It is a common epithet of the large group of birds known as shore-birds, bay-snipe, etc.
- noun In ornithology, a member of the Limicolæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shore-dwelling, usually said of certain
wading birds, such assnipes andplovers .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Līmicolae, former group name, from pl. of Late Latin līmicola, living in mud : Latin līmus, slime; see lei- in Indo-European roots + Latin -cola, inhabitant; see –colous.]
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