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grallatorial

grallatorial adjective: of or pertaining to wading birds.

Adjective

grallatorial (comparative more grallatorial, superlative most grallatorial)

  1. Of or pertaining to wading birds.
  2. Of legs, long and thin, as a wader.
    • Will found himself growing increasingly depressed as he twisted his grallatorial limbs and shook his nugatory buttocks with the rest of his fellow sufferers—it was the same thing, day in, day out, a purgatory of the unwise and unwell.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 214

Forms of grallatorial

comparativemore grallatorial
superlativemost grallatorial

Origin of grallatorial

From Grallatores (former order name) (from Latin grallātor (“stilt-walker”)) + -ial.

Words that rhyme with grallatorial

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Questions about grallatorial

What does grallatorial mean?
Grallatorial means of or pertaining to wading birds.
What part of speech is grallatorial?
Grallatorial is an adjective.

Words near grallatorial in the dictionary

  1. grakles
  2. graks
  3. Graley
  4. Graleys
  5. Grall
  6. grallatorial
  7. grallatory
  8. grallic
  9. gralline
  10. grallinid
  11. grallinids

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