Limicoline Definition

lĭ-mĭkə-līn, -lĭn
adjective
Inhabiting the shore; specif., designating or of a shorebird.
Webster's New World

Origin of Limicoline

  • From New Latin Līmicolae former group name from pl. of Late Latin līmicola living in mud Latin līmus slime lei- in Indo-European roots Latin -cola inhabitant –colous

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Limicoline Sentence Examples

  • Baptornis, another of Marsh's genera, seems to be allied to Enaliornis, Palaeotringa and Talmatornis, were by him referred to Limicoline and Passerine birds.

  • The nest, in which four eggs are laid with their pointed ends meeting in its centre (as is usual among Limicoline birds), is seldom far from the water's edge, and the eggs, as well as the newly-hatched and down-covered young, closely resemble the surrounding pebbles.

  • So far as is known the sternum of all the Snipes, except the Jack-Snipe, departs from the normal Limicoline formation, a fact which tends to justify the removal of that species to a separate genus, Limnocryptes.

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