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EGRET

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season

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Nouns denoting animals

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

heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)

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

Egretta thula; snowy egret; snowy heron (small New World egret)

Egretta garzetta; little egret (Old World egret)

Casmerodius albus; great white heron (widely distributed Old World white egret)

American egret; Egretta albus; great white heron (a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus)

Bubulcus ibis; cattle egret (small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals)

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