| 单词 | green sandpiper | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen sandpiper   green sandpiper  n. a small migratory sandpiper,  Tringa ochropus, which has a dark greenish-brown back and wings and breeds in subarctic Europe and Asia; (U.S.) the similar solitary sandpiper,  T. solitaria. ΚΠ 1766    T. Pennant Brit. Zool. 125  				The green Sandpiper. 1829    A. E. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. III. 127  				[The solitary sandpiper]..has considerable resemblance, both in manners and markings, to the Green Sandpiper of Europe. 1877    Zoologist 1 524  				A Green Sandpiper appeared here, and took up its quarters at a little pool close to the shore. 1917    T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. 245  				Solitary sandpiper... Green Sandpiper; American Green Sandpiper. 1999    Guardian 2 Feb.  i. 18/7  				I arrived to find a green sandpiper busy sinking its bill into the obviously appetising sludge. < as lemmas | 
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