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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([a^]v"[-o]*s[e^]t), n. [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zool.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is Recurvirostra Americana. [Written also avocette.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

avocet n 1: long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill