Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Limicola

Limicola (li*mik"o*lē) , noun, plural

[Latin limicola a dweller in the mud; limus mud + colere to dwell.]

(Zoology) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc.; the Gralla.

Also: Limicolae