grayback
灰鯨;黑頭鴉;南軍的士兵
Gray·back n. Zool. (a) The California gray whale. (b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot. (c) The dowitcher. (d) The body louse.
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grayback
n 1: `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms
[syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny]
2: a dowitcher with a gray back [syn: Limnodromus griseus]
3: a sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and winters in the
southern hemisphere [syn: knot, Calidris canutus]