waterbird

1. 1.

   freshwater aquatic bird

   Synonymswaterfowlwater bird

   Broaderaquatic bird

   Narroweranseriform birdscreamer

Other forms of waterbird

plural

waterbirds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about waterbird

What does waterbird mean?

waterbird means "freshwater aquatic bird".

How many syllables are in waterbird?

waterbird has 3 syllables: wa-ter-bird. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for waterbird?

Close synonyms include waterfowl, water bird. 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 waterbird a common word?

waterbird 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.