great crested grebe

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   large Old World grebe with black ear tufts

   SynonymsPodiceps cristatus

   Broadergrebe

Questions about great crested grebe

What does great crested grebe mean?

great crested grebe means "large Old World grebe with black ear tufts".

What is another word for great crested grebe?

Close synonyms include Podiceps cristatus. 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 great crested grebe a common word?

great crested grebe 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.