ruddy turnstone

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   common Arctic turnstone that winters in South America and Australia

   SynonymsArenaria interpres

   Broaderturnstone

Questions about ruddy turnstone

What does ruddy turnstone mean?

ruddy turnstone means "common Arctic turnstone that winters in South America and Australia".

What is another word for ruddy turnstone?

Close synonyms include Arenaria interpres. 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 ruddy turnstone a common word?

ruddy turnstone 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.