Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun grayback

2 senses of grayback

Sense 1
greyback, grayback, Limnodromus griseus -- (a dowitcher with a grey back)
       => dowitcher -- (shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe)

Sense 2
knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus -- (a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere)
       => sandpiper -- (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)