egret
/ˈiːɡrɪt
/ /ˈɛːɡrɪt/noun
A heron with mainly white plumage, having long plumes in the breeding season.
- Genus Egretta (and Bubulcus), family Ardeidae: several species.
- The result is the area has become a wildlife sanctuary with otters returning, and residents including white egrets, herons, kestrels and dozens of wild flowers.
- Despite the setting, we didn't see any waterfowl or shorebirds - no herons or egrets, no ducks or geese.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French aigrette, from Provençal aigreta, from the Germanic base of heron.
- overalled
- overallotment
- overambition
- overambitious
- overambitiously
- overamp
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- overanalyse
- overanalysis
- overanalyze
- over and above
- over and done with
- over and over
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- overanxiety
- overanxious
- overanxiously
- overarch
- overarching
- overarchingly
- overarm
- over-articulate
- over-articulated
- over-articulation
- overate