• (pl. ) of Longiroster • (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
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Lon`gi·ros'tres noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin
longus long +
rostrum beak.]
(Zoology) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.
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The Longirostres (from the Latin longus, long, and rostrum, a beak), are a group of wading birds (Grallatores), characterized by the possession of long, slender, soft bills, mostly frequenting marshy districts, moors, fens, etc. This group comprises the snipes, woodcock, sandpipers, curlews, ruff, godwit, turnstone, avoset, etc.
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