单词 | grayback |
释义 | grayback (once / 96880 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY grayback: graybacks USAGE EXAMPLESThe Aug. 5, 2008, crash near Weaverville, Calif., killed the pilot, a Forest Service safety inspector and seven firefighters with Grayback Forestry of Merlin. Washington Post(Sep 25, 2013) “Grayback” tried to climb up on the tip of a submerged boulder, slipped with all four feet at once and went over sidewise. Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome), Down the Columbia(2011) A grayback lizard darts out of the greasewood near at hand, blinks rapidly and darts back again, glad to escape the intolerable heat. Mulford, Clarence E., Hopalong Cassidy(2011) 1 n a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere 2Syn|Hyper Calidris canutus, greyback, knot sandpiper any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers n a dowitcher with a grey back Syn|Hyper Limnodromus griseus, greyback dowitcher shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe |
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