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Definition of Oyster catcher
1. Noun. Black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc..
Generic synonyms: Limicoline Bird, Shore Bird, Shorebird
Group relationships: Genus Haematopus, Haematopus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oyster Catcher
Literary usage of Oyster catcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"... dispersed over the globe, being met with in every country which travellers
have visited. THE OYSTER-CATCHER. PIED OYSTER-CATCHER, SEA-PIE, OR OLIVE. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"OYSTER-CATCHER, a bird's name which docs not seem to occur in books until 1731,
when M. Catesby (Nat. Hist. Carolina, L p. 85) used it for a species which ..."
3. British Zoology by Thomas Pennant (1818)
"oyster catcher. BILL long, compressed, the end ... The oyster catcher. Cat. Skade.
Brunnich, 189. Br. Zoul. 127. Arct. Zool. Carol, i. 85. ii. 196. ..."
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