calidris canutus

1. 1.

   a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

   Synonymsknotgreybackgrayback

   Broadersandpiper

   Part ofCalidris

Questions about calidris canutus

What does calidris canutus mean?

calidris canutus means "a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere".

What is another word for calidris canutus?

Close synonyms include knot, greyback, grayback. 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 calidris canutus a common word?

calidris canutus 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.