tringa melanoleuca

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   a variety of yellowlegs

   Synonymsgreater yellowlegs

   Broaderyellowlegs

Questions about tringa melanoleuca

What does tringa melanoleuca mean?

tringa melanoleuca means "a variety of yellowlegs".

What is another word for tringa melanoleuca?

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

tringa melanoleuca 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.