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Webster 1913 Edition

Limicolae

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Li-mic′o-læ

(lī̍-mĭk′ō̍-lē)

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Noun.

pl.

[L.

limicola

a dweller in the mud;

limus

mud +

colere

to dwell.]

(Zool.)

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc.; the Grallæ.