Grallae

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·pl An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms;

— called also Grallatores.

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grallae
grallae, ārum, f. [contr. from an obsolete dim., gradula, from gradus; cf. rallum, from rado], stilt...

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