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oystercatcher
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun oystercatcher has 1 sense
- oystercatcher(n = noun.animal) oyster catcher - black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.; Array is a kind of limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird
is a member of genus haematopus, haematopus
CIDE DICTIONARY
oystercatcher, n.
Any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus having stout legs and bill and mostly black-and-white plumage, which frequent seashores and feed upon oysters and other shellfish. The European species (Hæmatopus ostralegus ), the common American species (Hæmatopus palliatus ), and the California, or black, oyster catcher (Hæmatopus Bachmani ) are the best known. [1913 Webster]
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