English noun: phalarope | |||
1. | phalarope (animal) small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics | ||
Broader (hypernym) | limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Lobipes lobatus, northern phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, red phalarope, Steganopus tricolor, Wilson's phalarope | ||
Member meronym | family Phalaropidae, Phalaropidae | ||