GREBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grebe mean? 

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

1. small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting animals

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

podicipitiform seabird (aquatic birds related to the loons)

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

great crested grebe; Podiceps cristatus (large Old World grebe with black ear tufts)

Podiceps grisegena; red-necked grebe (large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck)

black-necked grebe; eared grebe; Podiceps nigricollis (small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States)

dabchick; little grebe; Podiceps ruficollis (small European grebe)

pied-billed grebe; Podilymbus podiceps (American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill)

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

genus Podiceps; Podiceps (type genus of the Podicipedidae: grebes)