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limicoline

[ lahy-mik-uh-lahyn, -lin ]

adjective

  1. shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.


limicoline

/ -lɪn; laɪˈmɪkəˌlaɪn /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Charadrii, a suborder of birds containing the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, oystercatchers, avocets, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of limicoline1

1870–75; < New Latin, from the former taxonomic name Limicolae “mud dwellers,” the plural of Late Latin līmicola “a dweller in the mud,” from līmus “mud, slime” ( lime 2( def ) ) + -cola, a combining form meaning “dweller” + -ine 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of limicoline1

C19: from New Latin Limicolae former name of order, from Latin līmus mud + colere to inhabit
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Example Sentences

It might surprise some that I speak of the Ypecaha as an intelligent bird, since it is a member of the “stupid family,” as Professor Parker has called the Rails; but in spite of the very profound admiration I feel for that illustrious anatomist, I believe he is wrong about these birds: there is, to my mind, very much more stupidity in the Auserine and Limicoline families, while the Ypecaha has always seemed to me a singularly intelligent bird.

It also, Rail-like, frequently alights on trees and fences, a habit I have not remarked in any other Limicoline species.

The beautiful Jacana or Jassana, sometimes called Alas-amarillas in the vernacular, differs very widely from all the other members of the Limicoline Order in its appearance, which is most singular—the toes - 164 -being enormously long, the head ornamented with red lobes, and the wings armed with spurs, these and the beak being of a bright yellow.

Baptornis, another of Marsh’s genera, seems to be allied to Enaliornis, Palaeotringa and Talmatornis, were by him referred to Limicoline and Passerine birds.

Associated words: littoral, circumlittoral, limicoline, shingle, beached. shore, v. prop, brace, buttress, support, stay. shorn, a. sheared, clipped; divested, deprived, fleeced. short, a. brief, contracted, terse, concise, condensed, sententious, laconic, succinct, summary, epigrammatic, pithy; limited, inadequate, insufficient, deficient, scanty; abrupt, curt, uncivil; lacking, shy, unsupplied; crisp, friable, brittle.

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