WADING BIRD

Pronunciation (US):

• WADING BIRD (noun)
  The noun WADING BIRD has 1 sense:

1. any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

  Familiarity information: WADING BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

• WADING BIRD (noun)

Meaning:

Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

wader; wading bird

Hypernyms ("wading bird" is a kind of...):

aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wading bird"):

stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)

trumpeter (large gregarious cranelike bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated)

Pedionomus torquatus; plain wanderer (small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains)

ortygan (any of several East Indian birds)

bustard quail; button quail; button-quail; hemipode (small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains)

bustard (large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes)

rail (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)

chunga; Chunga burmeisteri; seriema (Argentinian Cariama)

Cariama cristata; crested cariama; seriema (Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama)

Aramus pictus; limpkin (wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call)

Aramus guarauna; courlan (wading bird of South America and Central America)

crane (large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world)

heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)

flamingo (large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes)

spoonbill (wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon)

ibis (wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills)

Balaeniceps rex; shoebill; shoebird (large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe)

limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)