Thesaurus:shorebird

Thesaurus

shorebird

English

Noun

Sense: a bird in order Charadriiformes that lives on coasts

Synonyms

• shorebird
• wader

Hyponyms

Several species

• avocet
• courser
• curlew
• dotterel
• godwit
• greenshank
• ibisbill
• jacana
• knot
• lapwing
• oystercatcher
• peep
• plover
• pratincole
• redshank
• sandpiper
• seedsnipe
• shank
• snipe
• stilt
• stint
• surfbird
• tattler
• turnstone
• yellowleg
• woodcock

Single species

• dunlin
• ruff
• sanderling
• whimbrel
• willet
• wrybill

Hypernyms

• bird    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vertebrate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• animal    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

See Thesaurus:bird