stilt

English Thesaurus

1. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird,
definition	:	any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	black-necked stilt, himantopus mexicanus,
definition	:	stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	black-winged stilt, himantopus himantopus,
definition	:	stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	himantopus himantopus leucocephalus, white-headed stilt,
definition	:	stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	himantopus novae-zelandiae, kaki,
definition	:	blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus himantopus, himantopus,
definition	:	major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills (noun.animal)

2. long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird,
definition	:	any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	banded stilt, cladorhyncus leucocephalum,
definition	:	web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cladorhyncus, genus cladorhyncus,
definition	:	one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills (noun.animal)

3. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	column, pillar,
definition	:	(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure (noun.artifact)

hyponym	:	sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling,
definition	:	a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage (noun.artifact)

4. one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	pole,
definition	:	a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic (noun.artifact)