( 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.
( 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012