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pratincoles

pratincoles is the plural of pratincole.

Meaning of pratincole

Noun

pratincole (plural pratincoles)

  1. Any of several species of birds in the genera Glareola and Stiltia.
    • The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 59
    Synonyms:
    greywader

Phrases with pratincoles

Questions about pratincoles

What is pratincoles the plural of?
Pratincoles is the plural of pratincole.

Words near pratincoles in the dictionary

  1. Pratiksha
  2. Pratima
  3. Pratimoksa
  4. Pratimoksha
  5. pratincole
  6. pratincoles
  7. pratincoline
  8. pratincolous
  9. prating
  10. pratingly
  11. pratings

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