calidris melanotos

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   American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting

   Synonymspectoral sandpiperjacksnipe

   Broadersandpiper

   Part ofCalidris

Questions about calidris melanotos

What does calidris melanotos mean?

calidris melanotos means "American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting".

What is another word for calidris melanotos?

Close synonyms include pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe. 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 melanotos a common word?

calidris melanotos 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.