[ noun ] small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics <noun.animal>
Phalarope \Phal"a*rope\, n. [Gr. ? having a patch of white + ?, ?, a foot: cf. F. phalarope.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of {Phalaropus} and allied genera of small wading birds ({Grall[ae]}), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also {sea goose}.