noun
shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews
• Syn: ↑Charadrii
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Charadriiformes, ↑order Charadriiformes
• Member Meronyms:
↑shorebird, ↑shore bird, ↑limicoline bird, ↑Charadriidae, ↑family Charadriidae, ↑Scolopacidae, ↑family Scolopacidae, ↑Himantopus, ↑genus Himantopus, ↑Cladorhyncus, ↑genus Cladorhyncus, ↑Recurvirostridae, ↑family Recurvirostridae, ↑Haematopodidae, ↑family Haematopodidae, ↑Phalaropidae, ↑family Phalaropidae, ↑Glareolidae, ↑family Glareolidae, ↑Burhinidae, ↑family Burhinidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.