grebe : Idioms & Phrases

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black-necked grebe

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

  • noun small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States
    black-necked grebe; Podiceps nigricollis.
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great crested grebe

  • noun large Old World grebe with black ear tufts
    Podiceps cristatus.
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Horned grebe

  • (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.
Webster 1913

little grebe

  • noun small European grebe
    Podiceps ruficollis; dabchick.
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Pied-billed grebe

  • noun American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill
    Podilymbus podiceps.
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  • (Zoöl.), the dabchick.
Webster 1913

red-necked grebe

  • noun large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck
    Podiceps grisegena.
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Silver grebe

  • (Zoöl.), the red-throated diver. See Illust. under Diver.
Webster 1913

Sun grebe

  • (Zoöl.), the finfoot.
Webster 1913

Tippet grebe

  • (Zoöl.), the great crested grebe, or one of several similar species.
Webster 1913