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Definition of Great crested grebe
1. Noun. Large Old World grebe with black ear tufts.
Definition of Great crested grebe
1. Noun. A freshwater bird of Europe and Asia. Scientific name: ''Podiceps cristatus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Crested Grebe
Literary usage of Great crested grebe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"It would secin therefore that, as I had suspected (and suspect in many more
instances than where this is supposed to be the case) the great crested grebe ..."
2. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE great crested grebe is also known by the names of Tippet Grebe, Crested
Ducker, Gaunt, ... great crested grebe."
3. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"It is intermediate in size between the great crested grebe, and the Horned or
Sclavo- nian Grebe, and differs from the other species found in this country ..."
4. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1856)
"THE great crested grebe is very plentiful in Holland and Germany, and belongs
also to Iceland, Sweden and Norway, Italy, France, and Russia. ..."
5. Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880-1896 by James Robert Vernam Marchant, Watkin Watkins (1897)
"cester, Pembroke, Brecon, Berwick, Dumfries, Elgin, Fife, Had- dington, Kirkcudbright,
Wigtown. *GREBE includes great crested grebe (or ..."
6. Memories of the Months: Being Pages from the Notebook of a Field-naturalist by Herbert Maxwell (1897)
"VII The latest addition to the lake populace is that of The Great rt t-, \ t the
great crested grebe (Podiceps cris- Crested tatus). In the spring of 1894, ..."
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