Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the Grallatores or wading birds; wading; long-legged, like a wader.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to wading birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Grallatores, or waders.
Etymologies
- From Latin grallator (Wiktionary)
Examples
“{242} This is preferred to grallatorial, as more comprehensively descriptive.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grallatorial’.
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Logolepsy
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
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Flightful Forays
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Adjectival Arcana
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
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Tweets
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reesetee Belonging or pertaining to the wading birds, such as snipes, cranes, storks, and herons, many species of which have very long legs. Sep 2, 2008