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[syn: pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pied-billed grebe
n 1: American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill [syn:
pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps]