Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several shorebirds of the genus Limnodromus that breed in far northern latitudes and have brownish plumage and a long straight bill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The red-breasted or gray-backed snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus: a popular and now a book name of this species, which was formerly locally (Long Island and vicinity) called
German or Dutch snipe, to distinguish it from the so-called English snipe, Gallinago wilsoni.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (
Macrorhamphus griseus ); -- called alsobrownback , andgrayback .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of three long-legged and long-billed
migratory wading birds in the genusLimnodromus of the familyScolopacidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This area is important for waders, including the Asian dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus (R), a rare winter migrant.
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While 20 species occur regularly along the sand flats and mud flats of the estuary, four species, the willet, dowitcher, western sandpiper and marbled godwit, account for a large part of the bird population throughout the year.
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
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Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
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Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.
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Adults and larvae of these flies have been found in the stomachs of the dowitcher, the pectoral sandpiper, the hudsonian godwit, and the killdeer.
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W.od-duck, bob white, woodcock, golden plover, Hudsonian curlew, knot and dowitcher [are threatened with extinction.] -- (C.W. Nash, Toronto.)
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He carves them - the dowitcher, the American oystercatcher, the black-bellied plover.
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More than half the 77 species of migratory birds that use the East Asian-Australasian flyway -- including the Eurasian curlew which has 'near-threatened' status, the Asiatic dowitcher and black-tailed godwit -- arrive in September and leave by April.
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We did well with ducks, owls and warblers but missed a few anticipated shorebirds such as the white-rumped sandpiper, stilt sandpiper and short-billed dowitcher.
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The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady."
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