red-breasted snipe

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   a dowitcher with a red breast

   SynonymsLimnodromus scolopaceus

   Broaderdowitcher

Questions about red-breasted snipe

What does red-breasted snipe mean?

red-breasted snipe means "a dowitcher with a red breast".

What is another word for red-breasted snipe?

Close synonyms include Limnodromus scolopaceus. 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 red-breasted snipe a common word?

red-breasted 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.