Crossword-Solution: GREENSHANK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Greenshank | n. | A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GREENSHANK | anagram | GREENHANKS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “GREENSHANK”
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| Wader | 7 answers |
| SCOTTISH bird | 15 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with GREENSHANK (5)
Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.
Esau landed on the marsh at the head of the lake, to try and circumvent some duck he had descried; in this he failed, but shot a greenshank, of which there were several flying about.
Roseate Tern.] THE GREENSHANK TÓTANUS CANESCENS Bill strong, compressed at the base, slightly curved upwards.
GREENSHANK, one of the largest of the birds commonly known as sandpipers, the _Totanus glottis_ of most ornithological writers.
The greenshank is a native of the northern parts of the Old World, but in winter it wanders far to the south, and occurs regularly at the Cape of Good Hope, in India and thence throughout the Indo-Malay Archipelago to Australia.