gallinula chloropus

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   black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes

   Synonymsmoorhen

   Broadergallinule

   Part ofGallinula

Questions about gallinula chloropus

What does gallinula chloropus mean?

gallinula chloropus means "black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes".

What is another word for gallinula chloropus?

Close synonyms include moorhen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallinula chloropus a common word?

gallinula chloropus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.