black turnstone

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   common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America

   SynonymsArenaria-Melanocephala

   Broaderturnstone

Questions about black turnstone

What does black turnstone mean?

black turnstone means "common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America".

What is another word for black turnstone?

Close synonyms include Arenaria-Melanocephala. 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 black turnstone a common word?

black turnstone 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.