recurvirostridae

English Thesaurus

1. long-legged shorebirds (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus recurvirostra, recurvirostra,
definition	:	type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	charadrii, suborder charadrii,
definition	:	shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews (noun.animal)