Definition of Great crested grebe

1. Noun. Large Old World grebe with black ear tufts.

Exact synonyms: Podiceps Cristatus
Generic synonyms: Grebe

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

great blue heron
great blue shark
great bowerbird
great burdock
great bustard
great cardiac vein
great care
great cerebral vein
great cerebral vein of Galen
great circle
great circle route
great circle routes
great circles
great clock
great crest
great crested grebe (current term)
great crested grebes
great crested newt
great crested newts
great deal
great duckweed
great egret
great egrets
great foramen
great grandfather
great grandmaster
great grandmother
great grandparent
great grandparents
great gray kangaroo

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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