PURPLE GALLINULE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple gallinule mean? 

• PURPLE GALLINULE (noun)
  The noun PURPLE GALLINULE has 1 sense:

1. gallinules with showy purplish plumage

  Familiarity information: PURPLE GALLINULE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLE GALLINULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gallinules with showy purplish plumage

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("purple gallinule" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purple gallinule"):

European gallinule; Porphyrio porphyrio (purple gallinule of southern Europe)

American gallinule; Porphyrula martinica (American purple gallinule)