tringn.
/trɪŋ/, U.S. /trɪŋ/ Ornithology. rare.
Any species of bird of the genus Tringa (which name is more frequent in use), commonly called Sandpipers.
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 90 Tringa major.]
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 476 The red-legged Tringa.
1758 Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 255 This bird is like in shape to most others of the tringa or snipe kind.
1758 G. Edwards in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 255 I chuse, by way of distinction, to name it the coot-footed tringa.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 212 Red coot footed Tring, Tringa Rufa. Spotted Tring, Tringa maculata. Little Trings of the sea shore. Sand Birds.
1816 J. Bigelow in New Eng. Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 5 338 A species of plover or of tringa.
1844 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 178 This curious bird (a spoon-billed Tringa) described by Dr. Pearson.
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ˈtringine adj. of or pertaining to the genus Tringa.
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ˈtringoid adj. resembling the genus Tringa.
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