Meanings
nounavocet (plural avocets)
plural avocets · alternative avoset
- Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!
1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128
Origin
- Italianavocetta
- Frenchavocette
- Englishavocet
From French avocette, from Italian avocetta.
More words from French, Italian
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Bulgarian саблеклюн
- саблеклюн (sablekljun)bird
Catalan bec d'alena
- bec d'alenabird
Czech tenkozobec
- tenkozobecbird
Dutch kluut
- kluutbird
Finnish avosetti
- avosettibird
French avocette
- avocettebird
German Säbelschnäbler
- Säbelschnäblerbird
Greek αβοκέτα
- αβοκέτα (avokéta)bird
Irish abhóiséad
- abhóiséadbird
Italian recurvirostra
- recurvirostrabird
Persian نوکخنجری
- نوکخنجریbird
Polish szablodziób
- szablodzióbbird
Romanian cioc-întors
- cioc-întorsbird
Russian шилоклю́вка
- шилоклю́вка (šilokljúvka)bird
Scottish Gaelic gob-cearr
- gob-cearrbird
Spanish avoceta
- avocetabird
Welsh pig mynawyd, cambig
- pig mynawydbird
- cambigbird
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Cite this entry
APA
avocet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocet
MLA
“avocet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocet. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “avocet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/avocet.
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