1) Aquatic bird 2) Marsh hen 3) Swamphen 4) Water hen
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1) Moorhen 2) Ricehen 3) Swamphen
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• (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chlorop...
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any of several species of marsh birds belonging to the rail family, Rallidae, in the order Gruiformes. Gallinules occur in temperate, tropical, and ... [1 related articles]
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<ornithology> One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula...
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Gal'li·nule noun [ Latin
gallinula chicken, dim. of
gallina hen: confer French
gallinule .]
(Zoology) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family
Rallidae . They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes...
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Gallinule is a name for aquatic birds belonging to the family Rallidae or rails, genera Gallinula and Porphyrio. They are good swimmers, though they are not web-footed, but have the toes furnished with a narrow membrane. The common gallinule, moorhen or water-hen (Gallinula chloropus), is the only British species. It is black, with a red frontal sh...
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n] - any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
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marsh hen 1 water hen 1 swamphen noun any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
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[Difficult words] any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
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[Obscure words] any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
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