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Define the word pied-billed grebe

"Pied-billed grebe" gcide "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]

"pied-billed grebe" 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]

"pied-billed grebe" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

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