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
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• 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

(deprecated template usage) āvocet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of āvocō