limicoline
/lʌɪˈmɪkəˌlʌɪn/ /lʌɪˈmɪkəlɪn/Zoology
adjective
Mud-loving, mud-dwelling; especially of or relating to waders or shorebirds; designating sandpipers, plovers, and related birds, formerly placed in a group Limicolae.
noun
A limicoline bird; a mud-dwelling organism.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. From scientific Latin Limicolae + -ine.
- First Fleeter
- first floor
- First Folio
- first-foot
- first-footer
- first form
- first four ships
- first-fruit book
- first fruits
- first-fruits book
- first futtock
- first gear
- first-generation
- first grade
- first-half
- first-hand
- first-handed
- first-handedness
- firsthandness
- firsthood
- firsting
- first intention
- First International
- First Lady
- first language