YELLOWLEGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellowlegs mean? 

• YELLOWLEGS (noun)
  The noun YELLOWLEGS has 1 sense:

1. either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

  Familiarity information: YELLOWLEGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOWLEGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellowlegs"):

greater yellowlegs; Tringa melanoleuca; lesser yellowlegs; Tringa flavipes (a variety of yellowlegs)

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

genus Tringa; Tringa (a genus of Scolopacidae)