AQUATIC BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquatic bird mean? 

• AQUATIC BIRD (noun)
  The noun AQUATIC BIRD has 1 sense:

1. wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water

  Familiarity information: AQUATIC BIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUATIC BIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("aquatic bird" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquatic bird"):

water bird; waterbird; waterfowl (freshwater aquatic bird)

swan (stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult)

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

gallinule; marsh hen; swamphen; water hen (any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens)

sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)