Dowitcher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Either of two shore birds (Limnodromus griseus or L. scolopaceus) of northern regions, having brownish plumage and a long, straight bill.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
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  • n. shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    snipe   
    Cross Reference
    bastard dowitcher   
    Variant
    brownback    grayback   
     
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