phalaropes
Meaning of phalaropes
plural noun
a small wading or swimming bird with a straight bill and lobed feet, unusual in that the female is more brightly coloured than the male.
late 18th century: from French, from modern Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Greek phalaris ‘coot’ + pous, pod- ‘foot’.
Information about phalaropes
- It is a name.
- The singular form of phalaropes is: phalarope.
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Hyphenation of phalaropes
phalaropes
- It consists of 1 syllables and 10 chars.
- phalaropes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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