wading bird
English Thesaurus
1. any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | aquatic bird, |
| definition | : | wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | stork, |
| definition | : | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | balaeniceps rex, shoebill, shoebird, |
| definition | : | large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ibis, |
| definition | : | wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | spoonbill, |
| definition | : | wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | flamingo, |
| definition | : | large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | heron, |
| definition | : | grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | crane, |
| definition | : | large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aramus pictus, limpkin, |
| definition | : | wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | rail, |
| definition | : | any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bustard, |
| definition | : | large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bustard quail, button quail, button-quail, hemipode, |
| definition | : | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ortygan, |
| definition | : | any of several East Indian birds (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | trumpeter, |
| definition | : | large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | wade, |
| definition | : | walk (through relatively shallow water) (verb.motion) |
| derivation | : | wade, |
| definition | : | walk (through relatively shallow water) (verb.motion) |
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