GRAYBACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grayback mean? 

• GRAYBACK (noun)
  The noun GRAYBACK has 2 senses:

1. a dowitcher with a grey back

2. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: GRAYBACK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAYBACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dowitcher with a grey back

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grayback; greyback; Limnodromus griseus

Hypernyms ("grayback" is a kind of...):

dowitcher (shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Calidris canutus; grayback; greyback; knot

Hypernyms ("grayback" is a kind of...):

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Holonyms ("grayback" is a member of...):

Calidris; genus Calidris (a genus of Scolopacidae)