'Pied-billed grebe' definitions:
Definition of 'pied-billed grebe'
From: WordNet
noun
American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill [syn: pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps]
Definition of 'Pied-billed grebe'
From: GCIDE
- Pied \Pied\, a. [From Pie the party-colored bird.] Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." --Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Pied antelope (Zool.), the bontebok.
- Pied-billed grebe (Zool.), the dabchick.
- Pied blackbird (Zool.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.
- Pied finch (Zool.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
- Pied flycatcher (Zool.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'pied-billed grebe'
From: GCIDE
- Dabchick \Dab"chick`\ (d[a^]b"ch[i^]k`), n. [For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick.] (Zool.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and {pied-billed grebe}. [1913 Webster]