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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

A European sandpiper or snipe (

Totanus canescens

); – called also

greater plover

A Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)

greenshank ‎(plural greenshanks)

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

wading bird