Avocet (disambiguation)
Avocet is the common name of a genus of wading birds, Recurvirostra.
Avocet may also refer to:
- Avocet snipe-eel (Avocettina infans), a fish of the family Nemichthyidae
- Avro Avocet, a British single-engined naval fighter aircraft prototype of the late 1920s
- Avocet Mining, a West Africa-based gold mining and exploration company
- Avocet (album) by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1978
- USS Avocet (AM-19/AVP-4), a 1918–1946 US Navy Lapwing-class minesweeper
- USS Avocet (AMCU-16), a 1953–1960 US Navy minesweeper; formerly the USS LCI(L)-653, a 1944–1952 US Navy infantry landing craft
- MMI Avocet, a British, limited-production sports car launched in 2008, built by Roush Engineering (backed by industrialist Martin Miles for whom the car is named); it is based on Reynard Motorsport's Strathcarron prototype, using a Ford Sigma engine
- Republican Aviation Avocet, a fictional supersonic strike aircraft in the multiplayer game NationStates; it is based on the real-world British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2
- The only unit of the British Rail Class 89, which was named Avocet in 1989.
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