PIED-BILLED GREBE Definition & Meaning

pied-billed grebe

[ pahyd-bild ]

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noun

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

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Origin of pied-billed grebe¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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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.

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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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