Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Limicolæ
Li·mic′o·læ (lī·mĭk′ō·lē), n. pl. [L. limicola a dweller in the mud; limus mud + colere to dwell.] (Zoöl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc.; the Grallæ.