woodcock snipe

Questions about woodcock snipe

What does woodcock snipe mean?

woodcock snipe means "Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for woodcock snipe?

Close synonyms include great snipe, Gallinago media, American woodcock, Philohela minor. 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 woodcock snipe a common word?

woodcock 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.