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Definition of Greenshanks
1. greenshank [n] - See also: greenshank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenshanks
Literary usage of Greenshanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1850)
"... its stomach contained water-beetles, specimens of Cypris, &c. reland, where
one hundred greenshanks might be reckoned for every green sandpiper. ..."
2. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"Two greenshanks on Breydon ; these remained with us the whole of the gloomy summer;
... Two greenshanks on the mudflats. Eight there on the 4th. ..."
3. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"The greenshanks is to be seen in every part of India, usually alone, ... The next
species is closely related to the greenshanks, of which it may be said to ..."
4. Some more scraps about birds by Charles Murray Adamson (1881)
"saw several greenshanks at Gosforth Lake. Of a flock of ten or a dozen birds,
some appeared as they rose much darker in colour, five were certainly ..."
5. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"Four greenshanks on Breydon. August 14th. I was much interested in observing some
Sand Martins popping in and out of holes in a wall rising perpendicularly ..."
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