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avocet
av·o·cet [ ávvə sèt ] (plural av·o·cets)


noun 
Definition:
 
wading bird with long beak: a shorebird with black and white feathers and a long slender upward-curving beak. Genus Recurvirostra.
[Late 17th century. Via French avocette< Italian avosetta]
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