Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phalarope

1 sense of phalarope

Sense 1
phalarope -- (small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics)
       => shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird -- (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)