SNAKEBIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snakebird mean? 

• SNAKEBIRD (noun)
  The noun SNAKEBIRD has 1 sense:

1. fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

  Familiarity information: SNAKEBIRD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKEBIRD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

anhinga; darter; snakebird

Hypernyms ("snakebird" is a kind of...):

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

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

Anhinga anhinga; water turkey (blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions)

Holonyms ("snakebird" is a member of...):

genus Anhinga (type genus of the Anhingidae)