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SNAKEBIRD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill

Synonyms:

anhinga; darter; snakebird

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Nouns denoting animals

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

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

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

Anhinga anhinga; water turkey (blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions)

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

genus Anhinga (type genus of the Anhingidae)

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