- any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica(Hudsonian godwit ), having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- any large shore bird of the genus Limosa, of northern and arctic regions, having long legs and a long upturned bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
