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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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Etymology of 'Moorhen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moorhen" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretty freely, and could be taken by an angler wading from the shore. There was no boat. The wading, however, was difficult and dangerous, owing to the boggy nature of the bottom, which quaked like a quicksand in some places. The black water, never stirred by duck or moorhen, the dry rustling reeds, the noisome smell of decaying vegetable-matter when you stirred it up in wading, the occasional presence of a dead sheep by the sullen margin of the tarn, were all opposed ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... cried. "We two are going to have no end of fun together. You don't mind the other boys bullying you, and old Reb snarling and finding fault, and the Doctor boxing your ears with your books, when you've got places like this to come to. Hi! look at the old moorhen, there, with her young ones," and he pointed to a curious-looking bird swimming about and flicking its black and white tail, as it went in and out among the rushes growing in the water, with six little sooty-looking, downy young ones swimming after ...

— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn

Words linked to "Moorhen" : moorgame, red grouse, Lagopus scoticus, moorbird, moorfowl, gallinule, Gallinula, moor-bird, Gallinula chloropus, marsh hen