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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A European wading bird (Tringa nebularia) having greenish legs and a long bill.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The popular name of Totanus glottis, a common sandpiper

Wiktionary

  1. n. A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large European sandpiper with greenish legs

Examples

  • “Other uncommon species are golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, redlegged kittiwake Rissa brevirostris (VU), and spotted greenshank Tringa guttifer (EN).”

    Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation

  • “Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.”

    Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch

  • “Two globally endangered species -- spoon-billed sandpiper and Nordmann's greenshank -- were also spotted in Sonadia.”

    The Daily Star

  • “(_Linota flavirostris_), hen harrier (_Circus cyaneus_), buzzard (_Buteo vulgaris_), redshank (_Totanus calidris_), greenshank (_Totanus cunescens_) and the little auk (_Mergulus alle_).”

    Hertfordshire

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  1. sandpiper

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  1. chevalier
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  1. terekia

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  • chained_bear "...and everywhere those fluting marsh- and shore-bird cries, often the same as those they had both heard in their boyhood and uttered by birds if not of quite the very species than wonderfully like—greenshanks, stilts, avocets, plovers of every kind."
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 348 Mar 8, 2008

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