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Webster 1913 Edition

Longirostres

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Lonˊgi-ros′tres

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. L.

longus

long +

rostrum

beak.]

(Zool.)

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