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noun small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics
originFrom New Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Ancient Greek φαλαρίς (phalarís, “coot”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0