Definitions of avocet
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long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
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type of:
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limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird
any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
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limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird
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