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Wading Bird

Definition: Wading Bird

Wading Bird

Noun

1. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Wading Bird

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

Any of various forms of long-legged birds that live near water and feed on fish, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Wading Bird

Synonym: wader (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wading Bird

English words defined with "wading bird": Aramus guarauna, Aramus pictus, Australian stiltBurnt umber, bustard, bustard quail, button quail, buttonquailcourlan, Craneflamingogame bird, godwithemipode, Heron, Himantopus stiltJacanalimpkin, longlegsPedionomus torquatus, plain wandererredshankstilt, stilt plover, stiltbirdTringa totanus. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wading Bird

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  wading bird

27
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Modern Translations: Wading Bird

Language Translations for "wading bird"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zog këmbëgjatë (wader). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الطائر المخوض بحثا عن الطعام. (various references)

   

Czech

  

brodivý pták (wader). (various references)

   

Danish

  

vadefugl, stylteloeber (wader), himantopus himantopus (wader). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

waadvogel, steltloper (wader), steltkluut (wader), himantopus himantopus (wader). (various references)

   

French

  

sauvagine (waterfowl), himantopus himantopus (wader), échassier (wader), échasse blanche (wader). (various references)

   

German

  

Watvogel (wader), Stelzenlaeufer (wader), himantopus himantopus (wader). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gázlómadár (stilt, wader). (various references)

   

Italian

  

uccello di palude, trampoliere (wader), himantopus himantopus (wader), cavaliere d'Italia (wader). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shooylleyder (promenader, wader). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adingway irdbay

   

Portuguese

  

pernilongo (crane fly, daddy long legs, gnat, leggy, stilt, wader), perna-longa (wader), limícola, himantopus himantopus (wader), ave pernalta (wader). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

болотная птица (wader). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

barska ptica (wader, water bird, wildfowl). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

limícola (mud-living), ave zancuda (wader). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vadarfågel (shore bird, wader), vadare (wader). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chim lội (wader). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wading Bird

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-g-i-i-n-r-w"

-2 letters: bradding, braiding.

-3 letters: abiding, barding, bidding, birding, brigand, drawing, radding, raiding, ridding, wadding, wairing, warding, windbag.

-4 letters: adding, aiding, airing, baring, biding, daring, dawing, gradin, inward, riband, riding, wading, waring, wiring.

-5 letters: awing, bairn, bindi, braid, brain, brand, brawn, bring, dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, gaddi, gadid, garni, grain, grand, grind, indri, iring, nadir, rabid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wading Bird


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 64 69 6E 67      42 69 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#66 &#105 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0064 0069 006E 0067      0042 0069 0072 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

576770758073236758470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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