avocet

UK: /ˈævəˌsɛt/ US: (av′ə set′)

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av•o•cet  (av′ə set′), n. 

1. Birds any of several long-legged, web-footed shorebirds constituting the genus Recurvirostra, having a long, slender, upward-curving bill.

• Venetian)
• Upper Italian (
• Italian
• French avocette, probably erroneous spelling, spelled for Neo-Latin avosetta
• 1760–70

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avocet / ˈævəˌsɛt/ noun

1. any of several long-legged shore birds of the genus Recurvirostra, such as the European R. avosetta, having black-and-white plumage and a long upward-curving bill: family Recurvirostridae, order Charadriiformes

Etymology: 18th Century: from French avocette, from Italian avocetta, of uncertain origin