red phalarope

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   phalarope of northern oceans and lakes

   SynonymsPhalaropus fulicarius

   Broaderphalarope

   Part ofPhalaropus

Questions about red phalarope

What does red phalarope mean?

red phalarope means "phalarope of northern oceans and lakes".

What is another word for red phalarope?

Close synonyms include Phalaropus fulicarius. 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 red phalarope a common word?

red phalarope 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.