Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The original and usual form of
Podicipes .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
grebe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Podicipedidae: grebes
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‘dr’ has stated: I did a thesis on Podylimbus (sic) podiceps.
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1 The smaller diver (Podilymbus podiceps), and the larger, probably Podiceps holbœlli, are not peculiar to the Pacific coast. —
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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