greyback

greyback US, grayback [ˈgreɪˌbæk]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various animals having a grey back, such as the grey whale and the hooded crow

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Noun	1.	greyback - `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech Confederate soldier - a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
	2.	greyback - a dowitcher with a grey back grayback, Limnodromus griseus dowitcher - shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
	3.	greyback - a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere Calidris canutus, grayback, knot sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers Calidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae

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Calidris Calidris canutus Confederate soldier dowitcher genus Calidris Grayback johnny Johnny Reb knot Limnodromus griseus Reb rebel sandpiper whale	They are called greybacks, salmon ranging from the teens of pounds to the twenties, which come straight in from the sea, all silvery and some bearing tide lice to prove their freshness The 50-mile long Nith, the biggest and most productive of all the Solway rivers, is renowned for its greybacks, and it doesn't close till November 30. SILVER SERVICE by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) But we get to see more of malevolent, mad Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and there are two new major characters - menacing werewolf Fenrir Greyback (Dave Legeno) and Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent). Dark spell brewing; harry potter and the half-blood prince (12a) by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) Many new villainous characters will also be introduced for the first time such as the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and the zombie-like Inferi. New Harry Potter film is all about sex, drugs and rock n' roll: ... by Asian News International	grey sedge grey skate grey snapper grey sole grey squirrel grey substance grey vote grey warbler grey water grey whale grey willow grey wolf grey-black grey-blue grey-brown grey-crowned babbler grey-green grey-haired grey-headed grey-leaf pine grey-pink grey-state Grey-Thompson grey-wave grey-white greyback greybeard greyed greyhen greyhound greyhound racing greying greyish greyish brown greyish-black greyish-blue greyish-brown greyish-green greyish-pink greyish-white greylag greylag goose greylist greyly greyness Greys greywacke greywether GRF gri-gri Grias	Grey, Zane Grey, Zane Grey, Zane grey-black grey-blue grey-brown Grey-crowned Babbler grey-green grey-haired grey-headed Grey-headed Flying Fox Grey-lag goose grey-leaf pine Grey-Level Expansion Grey-Level Histogram Width Grey-market Grey-matter degeneration grey-pink grey-scale grey-state Grey-Thompson Grey-Thompson Grey-to-Cerebellum Grey-Turner's sign grey-wave grey-white Grey-winged Trumpeter greyback greybeard greybeard-grow-young greybeards Greybody Greybody Greyc's Magic Image Converter Greycliff Prairie Dog Town State Park greyed greyed greyed greyed Greyed out Greyed out Greyed out greyer greyer greyer greyest greyest greyest Greyface Greyface Greyfriar Greyfriar greyhen greyhens greyhound greyhound greyhound Greyhound Adoption Center

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Calidris
Calidris canutus
Confederate soldier
dowitcher
genus Calidris
Grayback
johnny
Johnny Reb
knot
Limnodromus griseus
Reb
rebel
sandpiper
whale

They are called greybacks, salmon ranging from the teens of pounds to the twenties, which come straight in from the sea, all silvery and some bearing tide lice to prove their freshness The 50-mile long Nith, the biggest and most productive of all the Solway rivers, is renowned for its greybacks, and it doesn't close till November 30.

SILVER SERVICE by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

But we get to see more of malevolent, mad Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and there are two new major characters - menacing werewolf Fenrir Greyback (Dave Legeno) and Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent).

Dark spell brewing; harry potter and the half-blood prince (12a) by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)

Many new villainous characters will also be introduced for the first time such as the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and the zombie-like Inferi.

New Harry Potter film is all about sex, drugs and rock n' roll: ... by Asian News International

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