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Definition of Tringa totanus
1. Noun. A common Old World wading bird with long red legs.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tringa Totanus
Literary usage of Tringa totanus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Some of the following begin to migrate: Cathartes; Falcones; Curvus amer.; Alcedo;
Quiscalus; Sturnella; Fringilla erythrophthalma; Fulica; Tringa; Totanus ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... and the tringa totanus, Meyer, in summer. Tringa Fusca, Falck, and when young
the Scolo- ]i" i- Totanus, Gmelin, not Linnaeus, ..."
3. A History of the Birds of Europe: Including All the Species Inhabiting the ...by Henry Eeles Dresser, Richard Bowdler Sharpe by Henry Eeles Dresser, Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1881)
"(tringa totanus) viii. 157. nana (Sylvia) ii. 397. (Tringa) viii. 51.
narbonensis (Parus) iii. 159. nasicus (Corvus) iv. 535. (Numenius) viii. ..."
4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Some of the following begin to migrate: Cathartes; Falcones; Curvus amer.; Alcedo;
Quiscalus; Sturnella; Fringilla erythrophthalma; Fulica; Tringa; Totanus ..."
5. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1856)
"... and other water- birds (Tringa, Totanus, Charadrius, &c.), flew in companies
along the surf on the water's-edge, uttering their lively, shrill note of ..."
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