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Purple Gallinule

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Noun

1. purple gallinule

gallinules with showy purplish plumage

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Purple Gallinule

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noun
a long-toed purple aquatic bird, Porphyrio porphyrio (or Porphyrula martinica), of the southern US and Europe, with red legs and red bill: family Rallidae (rails, etc)

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Purple Gallinule

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a gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) with purplish wings and legs, usually found in freshwater swamps from the S U.S. to tropical South America

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Purple Gallinule

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n.
1. A colorful gallinule (Porphyrula martinica) of Central and South America and the southeast United States, having a purple head, neck, and underparts, a greenish-bronze back, yellow legs, and a yellow-tipped red bill.
2. See purple swamphen.

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