Crossword clues for egret
egret
- Bird with an S-shaped neck
- Everglades dweller
- Crane cousin
- Blue heron kin
- Bird with long plumes
- Beautiful wading bird
- "Snowy" heron
- White marsh bird
- Swamp wader
- Plumed avian in Florida
- Long-legged marsh bird
- Long-legged fisher
- Leggy wading bird
- Bird found in Florida
- Wading creature
- Type of heron
- Stilt's cousin
- Sharp-billed wader
- Protected wading bird
- Plumed avian
- Pelican cousin
- Heron variety
- Frog-hunting bird
- Fish-eating wader
- Bird with beautiful plumes
- Wetlands nester
- Wetland wader
- Well-plumed bird
- Wader with an S-shaped neck
- Wader poised to pounce
- Plumed flier
- Long-plumed wader
- Long-plumed heron
- Long-legged flier
- Large white bird
- Lake Okeechobee wader
- It could be great or snowy
- Great white heron, e.g
- Graceful wader
- Florida wader
- Creature with graceful plumes
- Crane's cousin
- Coastal wader
- Bittern's kin
- Bittern cousin
- Bird with white plumes
- Bird that grows nuptial plumage
- Bird of crosswords
- Bird of a feather?
- "Snowy" wading bird
- "Great" heron
- Yellow-footed wader
- Yard bird, in Florida
- Winged white wader
- White, long-legged wading bird
- White-plumed one
- White wetlands wader
- Wetland bird
- Western Reef ___ (showy bird)
- Wader with prized plumes
- Wader in white
- Symbiotic partner of a rhino
- Source of white plumes
- Source of beautiful plumes
- Sometime hat plume
- Snowy __
- Snowy for example
- Snow-colored shore bird
- S-necked bird
- Protected wader
- Protected migratory bird
- Pond wader
- Plumy bird
- Plumaged piscivore
- Part of the National Audubon Society logo
- One with a Florida nest egg
- Old plume source
- Okefenokee Swamp wader
- Milky-white heron
- Marsh-dwelling white bird
- Long-plumed wading bird
- Long-plumed fisher
- Long-necked stalker
- Long-necked frog catcher
- Long-legged Floridian
- Long-legged coastal bird
- It might be snowy
- Inhabitant of a bird sanctuary
- Handsome heron
- Gulf Coast flier
- Great or snowy, e.g
- Great ___ (bird)
- Frog-eating wader
- Florida wading bird
- Florida flyer
- Florida avian
- Flier to fens
- Flier #4
- Fine-plumed bird
- Fine feather
- Fen bird
- Everglades wading bird
- Everglades flyer
- Everglades flier
- Everglades creature
- Everglades avian
- Creature with long, graceful plumes
- Cousin of a night heron
- Common beach loiterer
- Certain heron
- Cattle bird
- Boca bird
- Bird with long filamentous feathers
- Bird with a wide wingspan
- Bird with a snowy variety
- Bird with a low, hoarse croak
- Bird whose scientific name is Ardea alba
- Bird known for its plumes
- Avian wader
- Audubon symbol
- "Snowy" waterbird
- "Snowy" sight in Florida
- "Snowy" or "slaty" wading bird
- "Snowy" or "cattle" bird
- "Snowy" marsh bird
- "Snowy" denizen of Florida
- "Great" bird in the Everglades
- "Great white" flier
- "Cattle" or "Reddish" wader
- ''Snowy'' bird
- ___ monkey (East Indian macaque)
- Plume source
- Snowy _____
- Plume's source
- Heron's cousin
- Plumed heron
- Casmerodius albus, commonly
- Gulf Coast bird
- Florida bird
- Once-popular feather source
- White heron
- White-plumed heron
- Wading bird found in Florida
- Everglades bird
- Protected bird
- Bittern relative
- White-plumed bird, often
- Source of ornamental plumes
- Everglades wader
- Cousin of a bittern
- Fen resident
- White-plumed wader
- Plumed wader of the Everglades
- Fen denizen
- "Snowy" bird from the Everglades
- Great white ___
- White-feathered wader
- Everglades denizen
- Plume hunter's prey
- It may be snowy
- Source of a feather in one's cap?
- Bird with prized plumes
- Snowy Floridian?
- Wetland denizen
- Snowy wader
- Snowy ___ (marsh bird)
- Symbol of the National Audubon Society
- "Snowy" wader
- It's snowy in Florida
- Marsh hunter
- Target of the plume trade
- White-plumed marsh dweller
- Long-necked wader
- Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- Beauteous bird
- Showy bird
- Erstwhile source of plumes
- Bird with long white plumes
- Bittern's cousin
- Plume provider
- Shore bird most often
- Swamp stalker
- Stalker in a salt marsh
- Long-legged bird
- Snowy-plumed bird
- Plume producer
- Marsh wader
- Plumed one
- Heronlike bird
- Bird famed for its plumage
- Plumed pond dweller
- Plumed bird
- Bird of fine feathers
- Plume supplier
- Denizen of the Everglades
- Showy heron
- Well-plumed heron
- Bird known for its valuable plumes
- Pond denizen
- Snowy one
- Kind of monkey
- Plume bearer
- Heron's kin
- Bird with fine plumage
- Wader in the Everglades
- Heron's relative
- Fancy heron
- Ornamental plume
- Alligator's prey, sometimes
- Cattle or snowy ___
- Marsh bird
- Plumed wading bird
- Elegant white bird: for example, tailless tern ascending
- White wader
- White bird's energy mostly increased with time
- Wading bird, for example, to soak
- For instance soak heron
- Leggy bird to welcome centre forward
- Rue missing intro for White Bird
- Bird, say, on top of tree
- Bird, for example, ends in another nice nest
- Bird wishes you hadn't stripped
- Bird nested in winter, generally going west
- Bird in the pecking order the last, last of all
- Bird in sorrow hiding head
- Bird eating fish, Ruth wants no starter
- Heron, say, on top of tree
- Don't start to feel sorry for wader
- Big bird
- Water bird
- Coastal bird
- Swamp thing
- Long-legged wader
- Large bird
- Large wading bird
- "99 Luftballons" singer
- Long-necked bird
- Long-billed wader
- Wetlands wader
- Heron cousin
- Long-legged wading bird
- White wading bird
- Stork relative
- Long-necked wading bird
- Heron relative
- Florida marsh bird
- Long-legged shore bird
- White-plumed wading bird
- Wetlands bird
- Snowy bird
- Marsh denizen
- Long-plumed bird
- Crane kin
- Certain wading bird
- Ibis's cousin
- Everglades resident
- Bog bird
- Winged wader
- White bird
- Type of bird
- Snowy heron relative
- Fine-feathered specimen
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Egret \E"gret\, n. [See Aigret, Heron.]
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(Zo["o]l.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret ( Ardea egretta syn. Herodias egretta); the great egret ( Ardea alba); the little egret ( Ardea garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret ( Ardea candidissima).
A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage.
--G. W. Cable. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
(Bot.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
(Zo["o]l.) A kind of ape.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French aigrette, from Old Provençal aigreta, diminutive of aigron "heron," perhaps of Germanic origin (compare Old High German heigaro; see heron).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various wading birds of the genera ''Egretta'' or ''Ardea'' that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season. 2 A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette. 3 (context botany English) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle. 4 (context obsolete English) The crab-eating macaque (''Macaca fascicularis'')
WordNet
n. any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "egret".
An egret perched on a nearby limb swooped down and caught the Bluegill before it even hit the water and took off for its nest, she supposed, where he and the egret-wife and birdlets would share a tasty dinner.
A moment later there was another short, respectful knock on the door, and Chang led in two Egrets dragging Deadhead between them.
At the eastern end of the island, the mass of birds, Louisiana herons, pelicans, avocets, sandpipers, egrets, flamingoes and the few roseate spoonbills, went on with building, their nests or fished in the shallow waters of the lake.
At the farthest tip, near Cape Sable, the sky flashed with wild birds: herons, curlews, ibises, blue egrets, white pelicans, sandpipers and a few roseate spoonbills.
The terns, the sandpipers, gulls, shearwaters, egrets, and curlews seemed to have vanished.
An egret perched on a nearby limb swooped down and caught the Bluegill before it even hit the water and took off for its nest, she supposed, where he and the egret-wife and birdlets would share a tasty dinner.
We was making a fair living, salted fish, cut buttonwood, took plumes in egret breeding season, took some gator hides, some otter, done some trading with the Indins, and eased on by.
Ray gestured to take in the water, the bobbing floats, the tall, glossily wet eelgrass on the verge where a lone egret stood like a marble pillar.
Disturbed, a pair of sleeping egrets eyed them owlishly, irritated at the nocturnal interruption.
At the farthest tip, near Cape Sable, the sky flashed with wild birds: herons, curlews, ibises, blue egrets, white pelicans, sandpipers and a few roseate spoonbills.
And all the while we done fishing, too, sold some salt fish, took turtle eggs in season, shot gators and egrets when they was handy.
Along the green shores, flocks of gulls and egrets and ibises drifted like snowflakes, and pelicans skimmed over the water.
He has explored by canoe and found egrets, herons, ospreys, even an eagle.
Countless numbers of birds, herons and egrets standing in the shallow water, reed birds, woodpeckers, ground doves, sparrows, kites.
He dropped the shirt and clutched wildly at the coamings of the turret, the shirt floating away like a white egret on the wing.