red-necked grebe

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   large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck

   SynonymsPodiceps grisegena

   Broadergrebe

Questions about red-necked grebe

What does red-necked grebe mean?

red-necked grebe means "large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck".

What is another word for red-necked grebe?

Close synonyms include Podiceps grisegena. 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 red-necked grebe a common word?

red-necked 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.