limicoline

[ lahy-mik-uh-lahyn, -lin ]

/ laɪˈmɪk əˌlaɪn, -lɪn /

adjective

shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to numerous birds of the families Charadriidae, comprising the plovers, and Scolopacidae, comprising the sandpipers.

Nearby words

limestone lettuce, limestone pavement, limewater, limewood, limey, limicoline, limicolous, limina, liminal, liminality, liming

Origin of limicoline

1870–75; < New Latin, from the former taxonomic name Limicolae “mud dwellers,” the plural of Late Latin līmicola “a dweller in the mud,” from līmus “mud, slime” (see lime¹) + -cola, a combining form meaning “dweller” + -ine¹

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Examples from the Web for limicoline

Its habits on the shore are very similar to those of the other Limicoline species.
British Sea Birds|Charles Dixon
The young of all Limicoline birds are hatched covered with down, and are able to run soon after their breaking from the shell.
British Sea Birds|Charles Dixon
With the present species we exhaust the number of Limicoline birds that nest upon the shore in the British Islands.
British Sea Birds|Charles Dixon
It is rather remarkable how few species of Limicoline birds breed on the British coast-line.
British Sea Birds|Charles Dixon

It also, Rail-like, frequently alights on trees and fences, a habit I have not remarked in any other Limicoline species.
Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2)|P. L. Sclater

British Dictionary definitions for limicoline

limicoline

/ (laɪˈmɪkəˌlaɪn, -lɪn) /

adjective

of, relating to, or belonging to the Charadrii, a suborder of birds containing the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, oystercatchers, avocets, etc

Word Origin for limicoline

C19: from New Latin Limicolae former name of order, from Latin līmus mud + colere to inhabit

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