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Definition of Limicoline bird
1. Noun. Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries.
Generic synonyms: Wader, Wading Bird
Group relationships: Charadrii, Suborder Charadrii
Specialized synonyms: Plover, Sandpiper, Aphriza Virgata, Surfbird, Woodcock, Snipe, Curlew, Godwit, Himantopus Stilt, Long-legs, Longlegs, Stilt, Stilt Plover, Stiltbird, Australian Stilt, Stilt, Avocet, Oyster Catcher, Oystercatcher, Phalarope, Glareole, Pratincole, Courser, Burhinus Oedicnemus, Stone Curlew, Thick-knee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limicoline Bird
Literary usage of Limicoline bird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"For a limicoline bird, this tibio-tarsus is very short, stout, ... The application
here is: A limicoline bird of short stature related to the plovers. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"That all this wonderful " show " is tho consequence of the polygamous habit of
the Ruff can scarcely be doubted. No other species of limicoline bird has, ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"/Wessen, to flow; so called because the bird appears during the rainy season ).
A limicoline bird of the subfamily ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... a limicoline bird very abundant at certain seasons on the shores of Britain
and many countries of the northern hemisphere. ..."
5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1885)
"Another three-toed limicoline bird, Himantopus, is devoid of any such protuberance
on its tarso-metatarsus, and, as a rule, the hallux being small in so ..."
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