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AQUATIC BIRD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("aquatic bird" is a kind of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aquatic bird"):
water bird; waterbird; waterfowl (freshwater aquatic bird)
swan (stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult)
wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)
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)
sea bird; seabird; seafowl (a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.)
