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WATERBIRD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waterbird mean?
• WATERBIRD (noun)
The noun WATERBIRD has 1 sense:
1. freshwater aquatic bird
Familiarity information: WATERBIRD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freshwater aquatic bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
water bird; waterbird; waterfowl
Hypernyms ("waterbird" 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 "waterbird"):
anseriform bird (chiefly web-footed swimming birds)
screamer (gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call)
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