water ouzel

1. 1.

   small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

   Synonymsdipper

   Broaderoscine

   NarrowerEuropean water ouzelAmerican water ouzel

   Part ofCinclidae

Questions about water ouzel

What does water ouzel mean?

water ouzel means "small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom".

What is another word for water ouzel?

Close synonyms include dipper. 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 water ouzel a common word?

water ouzel 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.