porphyrio porphyrio

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   purple gallinule of southern Europe

   SynonymsEuropean gallinule

   Broaderpurple gallinule

Questions about porphyrio porphyrio

What does porphyrio porphyrio mean?

porphyrio porphyrio means "purple gallinule of southern Europe".

What is another word for porphyrio porphyrio?

Close synonyms include European gallinule. 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 porphyrio porphyrio a common word?

porphyrio porphyrio 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.