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GALLINULE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gallinule mean?
• GALLINULE (noun)
The noun GALLINULE has 1 sense:
1. any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
Familiarity information: GALLINULE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gallinule; marsh hen; swamphen; water hen
Hypernyms ("gallinule" is a kind of...):
aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallinule"):
Florida gallinule; Gallinula chloropus cachinnans (North American dark bluish-grey gallinule)
Gallinula chloropus; moorhen (black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes)
purple gallinule (gallinules with showy purplish plumage)
Holonyms ("gallinule" is a member of...):
Gallinula; genus Gallinula (gallinules)
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