anthus pratensis

1. 1.

   a common pipit that is brown above and white below; widely distributed in northern and central Europe and in Asia

   Synonymsmeadow pipit

   Broaderpipit

Questions about anthus pratensis

What does anthus pratensis mean?

anthus pratensis means "a common pipit that is brown above and white below; widely distributed in northern and central Europe and in Asia".

What is another word for anthus pratensis?

Close synonyms include meadow pipit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anthus pratensis a common word?

anthus pratensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.