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Definition of Greater yellowlegs
1. Noun. A variety of yellowlegs.
Definition of Greater yellowlegs
1. Noun. A shorebird of North America characterized by its yellow legs, scientific name ''Tringa melanoleuca''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greater Yellowlegs
Literary usage of Greater yellowlegs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"In Michigan this bird has practically the same habits and distribution as the
greater yellowlegs, which it so closely resembles, and with which it is ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"There were beds of Coots in the larger pools, and sometimes a Pied-billed Grebe
or two. In one pool was a flock of some fifteen greater yellowlegs. ..."
3. The Water-fowl Family by Leonard Cutler Sanford, Louis Bennett Bishop, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1903)
"... of the greater yellowlegs has been recently described by Mr. William
Brewster (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. ..."
4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"The other species whose eggs were previously unknown are Richardson's merlin,
greater yellowlegs, belted piping plover, Nelson's, Leconte's and Harris's ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The greater yellowlegs ( T. melanoleucus) inhabits durmg some part of the year
nearly the entire American continent and breeds chiefly north of the United ..."
6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"... etc., while, because of their constant noisy calling, they are known to gunners
as tattlers or tell-tale snipe. The greater yellowlegs (7'. ..."
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