phalarope
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of phalarope
1770–80; < French < New Latin Phalaropus genus name < Greek phalār ( ís ) coot + -o- -o- + -pous -footed; see -pod
Example Sentences
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Their distinctive circling inspired a T-shirt design with a phalarope atop a vinyl record player and the words “Mono Lake, you spin me round!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
In turn, birds like the Wilson’s phalarope — a shorebird that breeds in North America and winters near the Andes mountains — will struggle to find enough nutrients.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
And one, the phalarope, sounds like a crossbreed between Pharrell and a jackalope.
From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2016
The other was John Bush, a mathematician, who co-authored several papers with Prakash, including two on the feeding mechanism of the red-necked phalarope, an Arctic shorebird.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
The flesh of the phalarope is a great delicacy, like that of other waders which occur in the regions in question, but which I cannot now stay to describe.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
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