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adjective

Pied adj. Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." "Meadows trim with daisies pied."

Pied antelope (Zool.), the bontebok.

Pied-billed grebe (Zool.), the dabchick.

Pied blackbird (Zool.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.

Pied finch (Zool.)

(a)

The chaffinch.

(b)

The snow bunting. (Prov. Eng.)

Pied flycatcher (Zool.), a common European flycatcher (Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.

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Etymology of 'Pied-billed grebe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pied-billed grebe" Quotes from Famous Books

... extinction are the golden plover, American woodcock, pied-billed grebe, red-throated loon, sooty shearwater, gadwall, ruddy duck, black-crowned night heron, Hudsonian godwit, kildeer, northern pileated woodpecker, chimney swift, yellow-bellied flycatcher, red-winged blackbird, pine finch, magnolia warbler, ruby-crowned ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday