Moorhen Synonyms

mo͝orhĕn
Black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gallinula-chloropus

Words Related to Moorhen

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. shelduck
  2. moorhens
  3. scaup
  4. pochard
  5. garganey
  6. pintail
  7. wigeon
  8. coots
  9. greenshank
  10. limpkin
  11. ring-necked
  12. brambling
  13. pochards
  14. stonechat
  15. black-tailed

Moorhen Sentence Examples

  • A Moorhen ran across the dense vegetation, including the floating duckweed, that covered 98% of the stream.

  • Over the wall is the old farm pool, with a resident moorhen.

  • First he failed to see the great structural difference between the penguins (which Illiger had placed as a group, Impennes, of equal rank to his other families) and the auks, divers and grebes, Pygopodes - combining all of them to form a "Typus " (to use his term) Urinatores; and secondly he admitted among the Natatores, though as a distinct " Typus " Podoidae, the genera Podoa and Fulica, which are now known to belong to the Rallidae - the latter indeed (see Cool') being but very slightly removed from the moorhen (q.v.).

  • He stated that the Moorhen frequented swamps, ponds, streams and taro patches - much the same as today.

  • A moorhen clucked, distant sheep bleated and bright blue damsel flies fornicated elegantly in front of me.