phal|a|rope

phal|a|rope
phal|a|rope «FAL uh rohp», noun.
any one of three species of small swimming and wading birds that breed in the Northern Hemisphere, resembling the sandpipers but with lobate toes. The females are larger and more brightly colored than the males, which brood the eggs.
[< French phalarope < New Latin Phalaropus < Greek phalārís coot (< phálāros white-spotted, bald white head) + poús, podós foot]

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