yellowshins

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yellowshins - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Yellowlegs \Yel"low*legs`\, n. (Zool.)
     Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the
     genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; --
     called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale,
     yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
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  Yellowshanks \Yel"low*shanks`\, Yellowshins \Yel"low*shins`\, n.
     (Zool.)
     See Yellolegs.
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