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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill;
[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]