资料来源 : pyDict
灰鲸;黑头鸦;南军的士兵
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Grayback \Gray"back`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The California gray whale.
(b) The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.
(c) The dowitcher.
(d) The body louse.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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}]