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noun

moorhen n. (Zool.)

A black gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) that inhabits ponds and lakes.

Synonyms: Gallinula chloropus.

The female of the moor fowl; the moor hen.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moorhen" Quotes from Famous Books

... trees grow, and we don't know how they grow. For years and years they grow, without paying any attention to us, in meadows, in forests, and by the side of rivers—all things one likes to think about. The cows swish their tails beneath them on hot afternoons; they paint rivers so green that when a moorhen dives one expects to see its feathers all green when it comes up again. I like to think of the fish balanced against the stream like flags blown out; and of water-beetles slowly raising domes of mud upon the bed of the river. I ...

— Monday or Tuesday • Virginia Woolf

... cheerful crowing are always pleasant in the garden and woods around your house. If you feed them every day, they will come regularly up to the very door; and with them come the swans, waddling up from the water, looking very much out of their element. Sometimes, too, a moorhen will join the party; whilst two little wild ducks, the sole survivors of a brood of sixteen, which were attacked and killed by a stoat, will take food right out of the mouths of the good-natured old swans. Peacocks I would not care to have round the house; but there is nothing more in touch with ...

— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

Words linked to "Moorhen" : moorgame, genus Gallinula, Gallinula chloropus, moorfowl, swamphen, red grouse