greater yellowlegs

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   a variety of yellowlegs

   SynonymsTringa melanoleuca

   Broaderyellowlegs

Questions about greater yellowlegs

What does greater yellowlegs mean?

greater yellowlegs means "a variety of yellowlegs".

What is another word for greater yellowlegs?

Close synonyms include Tringa melanoleuca. 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 greater yellowlegs a common word?

greater yellowlegs 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.