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Phalarope

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Noun

1. phalarope

small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Phalarope

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noun
any aquatic shore bird of the family Phalaropidae, such as Phalaropus fulicarius (grey phalarope), of northern oceans and lakes, having a long slender bill and lobed toes: order Charadriiformes

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Phalarope

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noun
any of a family (Phalaropodidae) of small shorebirds: the male rears the young

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Phalarope

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n.
Any of several small shorebirds of the genus Phalaropus, having lobed toes and characteristically feeding by spinning in small circles in the water and catching small invertebrates brought to the surface by this motion.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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