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EGRET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("egret" is a kind of...):
heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "egret"):
Egretta thula; snowy egret; snowy heron (small New World egret)
Egretta garzetta; little egret (Old World egret)
Casmerodius albus; great white heron (widely distributed Old World white egret)
American egret; Egretta albus; great white heron (a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus)
Bubulcus ibis; cattle egret (small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals)
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