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yellowshank

yellowshank is the alternative form of yellowshanks.

Meaning of yellowshanks

Noun

yellowshanks (plural yellowshanks)

  1. A bird, the lesser yellowleg.
    • Besides, old man could always whistle just like a yellowshanks.1980, John Janovy, Yellowlegs

Forms of yellowshank

pluralyellowshanks

Questions about yellowshank

What is yellowshank the alternative form of?
Yellowshank is the alternative form of yellowshanks.

Words near yellowshank in the dictionary

  1. yellows off
  2. yellows out
  3. yellows up
  4. yellowseed
  5. yellowseeds
  6. yellowshank
  7. yellowshanks
  8. yellowshins
  9. yellowshow
  10. yellowsis
  11. yellowskin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yellowshank (page history and authors); yellowshanks (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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