Moorhen Definition

mo͝orhĕn
noun
The female moorfowl, or red grouse.
Webster's New World
The nearly worldwide common gallinule (Gallinula chloropus)
Webster's New World

Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.

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Other Word Forms of Moorhen

Noun

Singular:
moorhen
Plural:
moorhens

Origin of Moorhen

  • From moor +"Ž hen

    From Wiktionary

  • moor hen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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.

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