grebe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a freshwater diving bird with lobed toes, a pointed bill, and legs set far back on the body

   The grebe dived beneath the lake and surfaced several metres away.

Borrowed in the eighteenth century from French grebe. The earlier source is uncertain, although regional French forms have been compared. The name now applies to the specialized diving birds of the family Podicipedidae.

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