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great snipe

great snipe noun: a medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media).

great snipe: a medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media)
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Noun

great snipe (plural great snipes)

  1. A medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media).

Forms of great snipe

pluralgreat snipes

Questions about great snipe

What does great snipe mean?
Great snipe means a medium-small wading bird (Gallinago media).
What part of speech is great snipe?
Great snipe is a noun.
What is the plural of great snipe?
The plural of great snipe is great snipes.

Words near great snipe in the dictionary

  1. Great Sky River
  2. great slaty woodpecker
  3. great slaty woodpeckers
  4. Great Slave Lake
  5. Great Smoky Mountains
  6. great snipe
  7. great snipes
  8. Great Snoring
  9. Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  10. Great Society
  11. Great Somerford

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