| NOUN | animal | grebe | small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests |
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| Sounds | griy'b | |
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| Rhymes | caribe ... Hebe: 4 rhymes with iyb... | |
| Meaning | small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet. | |
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| Member of | Podiceps, genus Podiceps | type genus of the Podicipedidae |
| Narrower | black-necked grebe, eared grebe, Podiceps nigricollis | small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck |
| dabchick, little grebe, Podiceps ruficollis | small European grebe | |
| great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts | |
| pied-billed grebe, Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill | |
| red-necked grebe, Podiceps grisegena | large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck | |
| Broader | podicipitiform seabird | aquatic birds related to the loons |
| Spanish | podicipedidae, somorgujo, somorgujón, somormujo, zambullidor | |
| Catalan | cabussó | |
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