great snipe

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   Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe

   Synonymswoodcock snipeGallinago media

   Broadersnipe

   Part ofGallinago

Questions about great snipe

What does great snipe mean?

great snipe means "Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe".

What is another word for great snipe?

Close synonyms include woodcock snipe, Gallinago media. 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 great snipe a common word?

great snipe 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.