avocet

avocet

English

Alternative forms

• avoset

Etymology

From French avocette, from Italian avocetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈævəsɛt/

Noun

avocet (plural avocets)

a pied avocet

1. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

Derived terms

• American avocet, Recurvirostra americana
• Andean avocet, Recurvirostra andina
• pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
• red-necked avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

Descendants

• → Irish: abhóiséad

Translations

bird

Bulgarian: саблеклюн (sablekljun) Catalan: bec d'alena m Czech: tenkozobec Dutch: kluut (nl) m Finnish: avosetti (fi) French: avocette (fr) f German: Säbelschnäbler (de) m Greek: αβοκέτα f (avokéta) Irish: abhóiséad m

Italian: recurvirostra f Navajo: jáádtsʼósí Romanian: cioc-întors (ro) n Russian: шилоклю́вка (ru) f (šilokljúvka) Scottish Gaelic: gob-cearr m Serbo-Croatian: sabljarka (sh) f Spanish: avoceta f Welsh: pig mynawyd f, cambig m or f

See also

• stilt

Further reading

• avocet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• octave, vocate

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Latin

Verb

āvocet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of āvocō