tringa totanus

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   a common Old World wading bird with long red legs

   Synonymsredshank

   Broadersandpiper

   Part ofTringa

Questions about tringa totanus

What does tringa totanus mean?

tringa totanus means "a common Old World wading bird with long red legs".

What is another word for tringa totanus?

Close synonyms include redshank. 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 totanus a common word?

tringa totanus 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.