Definitions for limicoline

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limicoline li·mic·o·line

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

IPA: /laɪˈmɪk əˌlaɪn, -lɪn/

Limicoline is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in limicoline (ceiiillmno).

Definitions for limicoline

adjective

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

Origin of limicoline

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” (see lime

Examples for limicoline

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

With the present species we exhaust the number of limicoline birds that nest upon the shore in the British Islands.

Its habits on the shore are very similar to those of the other limicoline species.

The young of all limicoline birds are hatched covered with down, and are able to run soon after their breaking from the shell.

It is rather remarkable how few species of limicoline birds breed on the British coast-line.