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white-breasted waterhen

white-breasted waterhen noun: amaurornis phoenicurus, a species of waterhen found in tropical Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.

white-breasted waterhen: amaurornis phoenicurus, a species of waterhen found in tropical Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia
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Noun

white-breasted waterhen (plural white-breasted waterhens)

  1. Amaurornis phoenicurus, a species of waterhen found in tropical Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.

white-breasted waterhen meaning in Malayalam, Assamese and Malay

white-breasted waterhen in Malayalam

White-breasted waterhen
കുളക്കോഴി kuḷakkōḻi

white-breasted waterhen in Assamese

white-breasted waterhen
ডাউক dauk

white-breasted waterhen in Malay

Translations
ruak-ruak, wak-wak

Forms of white-breasted waterhen

pluralwhite-breasted waterhens

Origin of white-breasted waterhen

From white + breasted + waterhen.

Questions about white-breasted waterhen

What does white-breasted waterhen mean?
White-breasted waterhen means amaurornis phoenicurus, a species of waterhen found in tropical Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.
What is white-breasted waterhen in Malayalam?
White-breasted waterhen in Malayalam is കുളക്കോഴി (kuḷakkōḻi). See White-breasted waterhen meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is white-breasted waterhen?
White-breasted waterhen is a noun.
What is the plural of white-breasted waterhen?
The plural of white-breasted waterhen is white-breasted waterhens.

Words near white-breasted waterhen in the dictionary

  1. white-breasted hawks
  2. white-breasted nuthatch
  3. white-breasted nuthatches
  4. white-breasted sea eagle
  5. white-breasted sea eagles
  6. white-breasted waterhen
  7. white-breasted waterhens
  8. white-browed guan
  9. white-browed guans
  10. white-browed tit
  11. white-browed tits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: white-breasted waterhen (page history and authors); കുളക്കോഴി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ডাউক (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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