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Moorhen   Listen
noun
moorhen  n.  (Zool.)
1.
A black gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) that inhabits ponds and lakes.
Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus.
2.
The female of the moor fowl; the moor hen.





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"Moorhen" Quotes from Famous Books



... found, what sort of nests they are, what are the colors of the eggs and so on. And also how the young appear. Some of them come out fluffy, others covered with feathers, others with very little on at all. The young pigeon, for instance, has no feathers at all, whereas a young moorhen can swim about as soon as it comes out of the egg; while chickens run about and hunt flies within a few minutes; and yet a sparrow is quite useless for some days and is blind, and has to be fed and ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts


Words linked to "Moorhen" :   moor-bird, moorgame, swamphen, gallinule, Gallinula, moorfowl, moorbird, water hen, genus Gallinula, marsh hen, Lagopus scoticus, red grouse


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