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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various waterbirds of the family Rallidae, as the gallinule, rail, or coot, that inhabit marshland.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Zoöl.) Any gallinule.
  • (Zoöl.) The common American coot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK the moorhen.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a coot found in North America
  • noun any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens

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