Definitions for avocet

avocet av·o·cet

Spelling: [av-uh-set]
IPA: /ˈæv əˌsɛt/

Avocet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in avocet (aceotv).

Definitions for avocet

noun

  1. any of several long-legged, web-footed shorebirds constituting the genus Recurvirostra, having a long, slender, upward-curving bill.

Origin of avocet

1760-70; French avocette, probably erroneous spelling for New Latin avosetta Italian Upper Italian (

Examples for avocet

The avocet is interesting and attractive in appearance, without having any especially notable characteristics.

The American avocet breeds from Washington southward and spends its winters from central California south.

The avocet (Recurvirostra avocetta) is perhaps the most elegant of all wading birds.

The avocet stands about twenty inches in height, although its body is but little bigger than that of a Pigeon.

Witness the experience of the avocet on her voyage from Rotterdam.

The web-footed birds are either long-legged, as the flamingo and avocet, or furnished with short legs.

The nest of the avocet is a very simple structure, generally made by placing a few blades of grass in a hole in the sand.

The avocet's bill is sharply curved upwards, and is one of the most remarkable of such organs.

The Australian avocet is one species of a cosmopolitan genus.

They are about the size of the avocet, and sometimes 322 attain the height of six-and-twenty inches.

Word Value for avocet
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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