wading bird

Questions about wading bird

What is another word for wading bird?

It depends which wading bird you mean. In the sense “any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food”, the synonyms are wader. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wading bird?

WordNet records no antonym for wading bird. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wading bird come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wading bird

• Full entry for wading birdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wading birdWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.