podicipitiform seabird

English Thesaurus

1. aquatic birds related to the loons (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	sea bird, seabird, seafowl,
definition	:	a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	grebe,
definition	:	small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	colymbiformes, order colymbiformes, order podicipediformes, order podicipitiformes, podicipediformes, podicipitiformes,
definition	:	grebes (noun.animal)