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stone-snipe

stone-snipe noun: a common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).

Noun

stone-snipe (plural stone-snipes)

  1. A common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).

Forms of stone-snipe

pluralstone-snipes

Questions about stone-snipe

What does stone-snipe mean?
Stone-snipe means a common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).
What part of speech is stone-snipe?
Stone-snipe is a noun.
What is the plural of stone-snipe?
The plural of stone-snipe is stone-snipes.

Words near stone-snipe in the dictionary

  1. stone-mint
  2. stone-paste
  3. stone-pastes
  4. stone-rag
  5. stone-raw
  6. stone-snipe
  7. stone-snipes
  8. stone-still
  9. stone-throwing
  10. stone-wall
  11. Stone-Weierstrass theorem

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