saxicola rubetra

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   brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows

   Synonymswhinchat

   BroaderOld World chat

Questions about saxicola rubetra

What does saxicola rubetra mean?

saxicola rubetra means "brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows".

What is another word for saxicola rubetra?

Close synonyms include whinchat. 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 saxicola rubetra a common word?

saxicola rubetra 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.