Usually means: Medium-sized wading bird species.
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  1. greenshank: Merriam-Webster
  2. greenshank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greenshank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greenshank: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greenshank: Vocabulary.com
  6. greenshank: Wordnik
  7. greenshank: Wiktionary
  8. greenshank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. greenshank: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Greenshank, greenshank: Dictionary.com
  11. Greenshank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Greenshank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. greenshank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. greenshank: Rhymezone
  15. Greenshank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. greenshank: FreeDictionary.org
  17. greenshank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. greenshank: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.

Similar:
tringa nebularia, common greenshank, shank, redshank, wood sandpiper, greenie, longshanks, shadbird, yellowshank, green linnet, more...

Opposite:
redshank

Types:
Eurasigreenshank, green sandpiper, wood sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, more...

Phrases:
common greenshank, more...

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Similar:
tringa nebularia, common greenshank, shank, redshank, wood sandpiper, greenie, longshanks, shadbird, yellowshank, green linnet, more...

Opposite:
redshank

Types:
Eurasigreenshank, green sandpiper, wood sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, more...

Phrases:
common greenshank, more...



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