Noun: avocet
| Singular | avocet |
| Plural | avocets |
Sample Sentences
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The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee! [1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128:]
Nouns inflected like avocet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French avocette, from Italian avocetta. See: French Nouns '
avocette', Italian Nouns '
avocetta'.
Verbs referencing "avocet"
Irish Nouns
abhóiséad.