limicoline bird

Questions about limicoline bird

What does limicoline bird mean?

limicoline bird means "any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries".

What is another word for limicoline bird?

Close synonyms include shorebird, shore bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is limicoline bird a common word?

limicoline bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.