red-backed sandpiper
North American
noun
The dunlin, Calidris alpina (family Scolopacidae), which has a reddish-brown back in the breeding season.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), ornithologist and poet.
- cytomorphosis
- cyton
- cytopathic
- cytopathogenic
- cytopathogenicity
- cytopathologist
- cytopathology
- cytopenia
- cytopenic
- cytopharynx
- cytophil
- cytophile
- cytophilic
- cytophilically
- cytophotometer
- cytophotometric
- cytophotometrically
- cytophotometry
- cytoplasm
- cytoplasmatic
- cytoplasmic
- cytoplasmically
- cytoplasmic inheritance
- cytoplasmic male sterility
- take up (or throw down) the gauntlet