grayback

English Thesaurus

1. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sandpiper,
definition	:	any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	calidris, genus calidris,
definition	:	a genus of Scolopacidae (noun.animal)

2. a dowitcher with a grey back (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	dowitcher,
definition	:	shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe (noun.animal)