[syn: knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
greyback
n 1: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
[syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback]
2: a dowitcher with a grey back [syn: greyback, grayback,
Limnodromus griseus]
3: a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the
southern hemisphere [syn: knot, greyback, grayback,
Calidris canutus]