Dowitcher

Definition: Dowitcher

Dowitcher

Noun

1. Shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe.

Crosswords: Dowitcher

English words defined with "dowitcher": Brownback ♦ Gray snipe, grayback ♦ Limnodromus griseus, Limnodromus scolopaceus, Longbeak ♦ red-breasted snipe, Robin snipe. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Dowitcher

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dowitchers

Long-billed Dowitcher

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family†:	Scolopacidae

Genera
Limnodromus

† see also: wader

The three dowitchers are medium-sized long-billed wading birds. They resemble godwits in body and bill shape, and the reddish underparts in summer, but are much shorter legged, more like snipe. All three are strongly migratory.

The two North American species are difficult to separate in most plumages, and were considered a single species for many years. The Asian bird is rare and not well-known.

Species are:

Family: Scolopacidae (part)
- Short-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Asiatic Dowitcher, Limnodromus semipalmatus

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dowitcher."

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Image Slideshow: Dowitcher

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Photo Album: Dowitcher

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Limnodromus griseus - a Short-billed Dowitcher. Credit: Sanctuaries.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Dowitcher

"Dowitcher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dowitcher" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dowitcher

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
billed dowitcher short	2
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Modern Translation: Dowitcher

Language		Translations for "dowitcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kortnaebbet sneppeklire (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

Dutch		zuidelijke grijze snip (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

French		petit limnodrome (short-billed dowitcher), limnodrome gris (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

German		Schlammläufer (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

Greek		τρανολιμνοδρόμος (long billed dowitcher). (various references)

Italian		piro-piro pettirosso (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

Pig Latin		owitcherday

Portuguese		maçarico-escolopáceo-americano (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)

Spanish		agujeta gris (short-billed dowitcher). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dowitcher

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Limnodromus griseus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Dowitcher

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dowitcher": dowitchers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dowitcher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-o-r-t-w"
	-2 letters: choired, chowder, cordite, cowherd, cowhide, cowrite, crowdie, ditcher, theroid, torched, witched, worthed, writhed.
	-3 letters: chider, chored, chowed, cither, coedit, coheir, cowier, cowrie, credit, crowed, dehort, direct, dither, dotier, dreich, editor, erotic, hector, herdic, heriot, heroic, howdie, itched, ochred, orchid, rhodic, rioted, rochet, rotche, thoric, thrice, tocher, triced, triode, troche, trowed, weirdo, whited.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-o-r-t-w"
	+1 letter: dowitchers.
	+3 letters: creditworthy.
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