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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GREENSHANK

GREENSHANK Green "shank `, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens ); -- called also greater plover.

New American Oxford Dictionary

greenshank

green shank |ˈgrēnˌSHaNGk ˈɡrinˌʃæŋk | ▶noun a large sandpiper with long, greenish legs and gray plumage, breeding in northern Eurasia and North America. [Genus Tringa, family Scolopacidae: two species, in particular T. nebularia. ]

Oxford Dictionary

greenshank

green |shank |ˈgriːnʃaŋk | ▶noun a large sandpiper with long greenish legs and grey plumage, breeding in northern Eurasia and North America. ●Genus Tringa, family Scolopacidae: two species, in particular T. nebularia.