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PIED-BILLED GREBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pied-billed grebe mean? 

PIED-BILLED GREBE (noun)
  The noun PIED-BILLED GREBE has 1 sense:

1. American grebe having a black-banded whitish billplay

  Familiarity information: PIED-BILLED GREBE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PIED-BILLED GREBE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pied-billed grebe; Podilymbus podiceps

Hypernyms ("pied-billed 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)

Holonyms ("pied-billed grebe" is a member of...):

genus Podilymbus; Podilymbus (a genus of Podicipedidae)


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