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water ouzel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun water ouzel has 1 sense
- water ouzel(n = noun.animal) dipper - small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom; Array is a kind of oscine, oscine bird
is a member of cinclidae, family cinclidae
has particulars: cinclus aquaticus, european water ouzel, american water ouzel, cinclus mexicanus
CIDE DICTIONARY
water ouzel,
Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates ), especially the European water ousel (Cinclus aquaticus ), and the American water ousel (Cinclus Mexicanus ). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food. [1913 Webster]
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