yellowlegs Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

WordNet

Yel"low*legs` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

Webster 1913