longirostres

from The Century Dictionary.

• In Cuvier's system of classification, a family of Grallæ or wading birds, including the snipes and their allies, together with the ibises, ranged here on account of their superficial resemblance to curlews.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.