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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various waterbirds of the family Rallidae, as the gallinule, rail, or coot, that inhabit marshland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) Any gallinule.
- (Zoöl.) The common American coot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK the
moorhen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coot found in North America
- 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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