しぎ
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
tinamou (any bird of family Tinamidae)
painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
greenshank (species of sandpiper, Tringa nebularia)
common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
chestnut weevil (Curculio dentipes)
Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
curlew (any bird of genus Numenius)
grey-tailed tattler (species of sandpiper, Heteroscelus brevipes)
phalarope (any sandpiper of family Phalaropodidae)
common redshank (Tringa totanus)
ruff; reeve (species of sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax)
ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)
black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus); stilt (any bird of family Recurvirostridae); avocet
slender snipe eel (Nemichthys scolopaceus)