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pied-billed grebe

[ pahyd-bild ]

noun

  1. an American grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, having a whitish bill with a black band around it.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pied-billed grebe1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences

Her thesis research was the ecology of the giant pied-billed grebe, a flightless bird that was then found only at Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands and now is extinct.

Quite as expert a performer is the pied-billed grebe, who swims long distances with body submerged and only the tip of the bill out of the water.

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