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Noun: avocet  'a-vu,set
  1. Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill

Derived forms: avocets

Type of: limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird

Part of: genus Recurvirostra, Recurvirostra

Encyclopedia: Avocet