| NOUN | animal | phalarope | small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers |
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| Meaning | small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics. | |
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| Member of | Phalaropidae, family Phalaropidae | phalaropes |
| Narrower | Wilson's phalarope, Steganopus tricolor | Breeds on the northern great plains of Canada |
| northern phalarope, Lobipes lobatus | Breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds | |
| red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius | phalarope of northern oceans and lakes | |
| Broader | shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird | Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries |
| Spanish | falaropo, phalaropus | |
| Catalan | escuraflascons | |
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