Word Meanings - RECURVIROSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Related words: (words related to RECURVIROSTER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• AVOCET; AVOSET
  A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana.
• UPWARD; UPWARDS
  1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
• UPWARD
  Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
• PREBENDSHIP
  A prebendaryship. Foxe.