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Define the word Podilymbus podiceps

"Podilymbus podiceps" gcide "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]

"Podilymbus podiceps" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

Podilymbus podiceps
     n : American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill [syn: pied-billed grebe]