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Definition: Redshank |
RedshankNoun1. A common Old World wading bird with long red legs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Common Redshank or Redshank is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. This is a widespread breeding bird across Europe and northern Asia. It is a migratory species, wintering on coasts around the Mediterranean, in south Asia, and on the Atlantic coast of Europe from Great Britain southwards.
Common Redshank
Breeding plumage
larger imageScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Genus: Tringa Species: totanus Binomial name Tringa totanus It is replaced in the Arctic by the closely related Spotted Redshank, which has a longer bill and legs, and is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter.
Redshanks have red legs and bill, and show white up the back and on the wings in flight. They are brown, becoming somewhat lighter-toned in winter.
Redshanks will nest in any wetland, from damp meadows to saltmarsh, often at high densities. They lay 3-5 eggs. These are wary and noisy birds which will alert everything else with their loud piping call. Like most waders, they feed on small invertebrates.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Common Redshank."
Synonym: RedshankSynonym: Tringa totanus (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: redshanks (biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Redshank |
| English words defined with "redshank": Clee ♦ Pellile, Pool snipe ♦ Redlegs ♦ Sand cock ♦ Teuk. (references) |
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| "Redshank" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Redshank" is used about 24 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) | 75% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "redshank": redshank-like. | |
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| 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 |
redshank | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "redshank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | шотландец (caledonian, scot, scotchman, scotsman), кюкавец (tattler), ирландец (hibernian, irish, irishman, milesian). (various references) | |
Danish | roedben, ferskenpileurt (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
Dutch | perzikkruid (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
Finnish | hanhentatar (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
French | renouée persicaire, pied rouge, chevalier gambette. (various references) | |
German | Rotschenkel, Flohknöterich (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
Greek | κοκκινοσκέλης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בצ ית א"ומת ר'ל. (various references) | |
Italian | pettegola, persicaria (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
Manx | goblan marrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edshankray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | perna-vermelha-comum. (various references) | |
Romanian | puricariţã. (various references) | |
Russian | травник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta obalske ptice. (various references) | |
Spanish | pimentilla (lady's thumb), durazrillo comun (lady's thumb), archibebe común, archibebe. (various references) | |
Swedish | rödbena, åkerpilört (lady's thumb). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | червонодзьобий кулик. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Polygonum persicaria, RM:trintga cotschna, Tringa totanus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redshank": redshanks. (additional references) | |
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"Redshank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Raushan, Rexshun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: darkens, hankers, hardens, harkens, shanked, sharked. | |
-2 letters: danker, darken, dasher, denars, drakes, hanked, hanker, harden, harked, harken, kasher, khedas, kneads, narked, ranked, redans, sander, shader, shaken, shaker, shared, shrank, snaked, snared. | |
-3 letters: ankhs, ashed, ashen, asked, asker, dares, darks, darns, deans, dears, deash, denar, dhaks, drake, drank, dreks, earns, eskar, hades, hakes, hands. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: dakerhens, redshanks. | |
+3 letters: backhanders, handworkers. | |
+4 letters: blackhanders, headshrinker, stickhandler. | |
+5 letters: handkerchiefs, headshrinkers, stickhandlers. | |
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