REDSHANK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A common Old World wading bird with long red legs

Synonyms:

redshank; Tringa totanus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("redshank" 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 ("redshank" is a member of...):

genus Tringa; Tringa (a genus of Scolopacidae)

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