"wading bird" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wading birds [plural]
Etymology: wading + bird Etymology templates: {{com|en|wading|bird}} wading + bird Head templates: {{en-noun}} wading bird (plural wading birds)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wading, bird.
    Sense id: en-wading_bird-en-noun-vp6h28Ev
  2. Any of various long-legged birds, of the order Ciconiiformes, such as cranes, herons, or storks, that wade in shallow water in search of food. Categories (lifeform): Birds Synonyms: wader Translations (long-legged bird): 涉禽 (shèqín) (Chinese Mandarin), vadefugl [common-gender] (Danish), waadvogel [masculine] (Dutch), kahlaaja (Finnish), Watvogel [masculine] (German), Stelzvogel [masculine] (German), gázló (Hungarian), gázlómadár (Hungarian), vaðfugl [masculine] (Icelandic), uccelli limicoli [masculine, plural] (Italian), trampoliere [masculine] (Italian), uccello di ripa [masculine] (Italian), vadefugl [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vadefugl [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), eun-grunnachaidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-wading_bird-en-noun-77wHKVJm Disambiguation of Birds: 13 87 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 92 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 8 92 Disambiguation of 'long-legged bird': 30 70

Inflected forms

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