cargoosen.
A name for the Crested Grebe.
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1677 W. Charleton Exercitationes de Differrentiis et Nominibus Animalium (ed. 2) 107 Avis quædam anate paulo major..agri Cestrensis incolis (ubi frequens est) a Cargoos dicta.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 232 Why there are no..cargeese upon these lakes nobody informs me.
1879 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 609/2.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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- mountain-walled
- mountainbarbel
- mountainbeauty
- mountainbellied
- mountainboar
- mountainboard
- mountainboarder
- mountainboarding
- mountainbound
- mountainbuilt
- mountaincedar
- mountainchair
- mountainchaise
- mountaincircled
- mountainclear
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- mountaincork
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- mountaincresting
- mountaindew
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- mountainechoed