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Phalarope

Phalarope Meaning & Definition
Phalarope Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Phalarope?

[n] small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics

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See Also | family Phalaropidae | limicoline bird | Lobipes lobatus | northern phalarope | Phalaropidae | Phalaropus fulicarius | red phalarope | shore bird | shorebird | Steganopus tricolor | Wilson's phalarope

Phalarope In Webster's Dictionary

\Phal"a*rope\, n. [Gr. ? having a patch of white + ?, ?, a foot: cf. F. phalarope.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of {Phalaropus} and allied genera of small wading birds ({Grall[ae]}), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also {sea goose}.

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