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語源

From French avocette, from Italian avocetta.

発音

• IPA: /ˈævəsɛt/

名詞

avocet (plural avocets)

1. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
   • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128:

     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!

派生語

• American avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
• Andean avocet (Recurvirostra andina)
• pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
• red-necked avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae)

派生した語

• → Irish: abhóiséad

参考

• stilt

Further reading

• avocet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• octave, vocate