avocet

English

Alternative forms

• avoset

Etymology

From French avocette, from Italian avocetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈævəsɛt/

Noun

avocet (plural avocets)

a pied avocet

1. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet. It is the logo of the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)

Derived terms

• American avocet, Recurvirostra americana
• Andean avocet, Recurvirostra andina
• pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
• red-necked avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

Descendants

• → Irish: abhóiséad

Translations

bird

• Bulgarian: саблеклюн (sablekljun)
• Catalan: bec d'alena m
• Czech: tenkozobec
• Dutch: kluut (nl) m
• Finnish: avosetti (fi)
• French: avocette (fr) f
• German: Säbelschnäbler (de) m
• Greek: αβοκέτα (el) f (avokéta)
• Irish: abhóiséad m
• Italian: recurvirostra f
• Navajo: jáádtsʼósí
• Persian: نوک‌خنجری
• Polish: szablodziób (pl) m
• Romanian: cioc-întors (ro) n
• Russian: шилоклю́вка (ru) f (šilokljúvka)
• Scottish Gaelic: gob-cearr m
• Serbo-Croatian: sabljarka (sh) f
• Spanish: avoceta f
• Welsh: pig mynawyd f, cambig m or f

See also

• stilt

Further reading

• avocet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• octave, vocate

Latin

Verb

āvocet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of āvocō