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GREAT CRESTED GREBE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does great crested grebe mean?
• GREAT CRESTED GREBE (noun)
The noun GREAT CRESTED GREBE has 1 sense:
1. large Old World grebe with black ear tufts
Familiarity information: GREAT CRESTED GREBE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large Old World grebe with black ear tufts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
great crested grebe; Podiceps cristatus
Hypernyms ("great crested grebe" is a kind of...):
grebe (small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet)
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