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

2 senses of jacksnipe

Sense 1
jacksnipe, half snipe, Limnocryptes minima -- (a small short-billed Old World snipe)
       => snipe -- (Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks)

Sense 2
pectoral sandpiper, jacksnipe, Calidris melanotos -- (American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting)
       => sandpiper -- (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)