The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tringa \Trin"ga\, n. [NL.] (Zool.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Tringa n 1: a genus of Scolopacidae [syn: Tringa, genus Tringa]