Three great egrets , Ardea alba .
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From Middle English , from Anglo-Norman egret , aigrette ( “ egret ” ) , from Old Occitan aigreta , diminutive of aigron ( “ heron ” ) , from Medieval Latin hairo , from Frankish *haigro ( “ heron ” ) . Cognate with Old High German heigaro ( “ heron ” ) , Old English hrāgra ( “ heron ” ) . Doublet of aigrette . More at heron .
Pronunciation
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egret (plural egrets )
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.
2011 , Jesmyn Ward , Salvage the Bones , Bloomsbury (2017), page 64 :Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides.
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament.
Synonym: aigrette
( botany ) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes , such as the down of the thistle .
( obsolete ) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis )
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Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea
Arabic: أَبُو قِرْدَان m ( ʔabū qirdān )
Egyptian Arabic: أبو قردان m ( ʔabō ʔerdān )
Assamese: বগলী ( bogoli ) , বগ ( bog )
Bengali: বক (bn) ( bok )
Bulgarian: бя́ла ча́пла f ( bjála čápla )
Catalan: agró m ( Egretta alba ) , martinet m ( Egretta garzetta )
Chinese:
Hokkien: 白鷺 / 白鹭 ( pe̍h-lō͘ ) , 白鷺鷥 / 白鹭鸶 ( pe̍h-lō͘-si )
Mandarin: 白鷺 / 白鹭 (zh) ( báilù )
Czech: volavka (cs) f
Dutch: reiger (nl) m
Esperanto: egreto
Finnish: jalohaikara (fi)
French: aigrette (fr) f
Galician: garzota f , garza (gl) f
German: Reiher (de) m
Greek: τσικνιάς (el) m ( tsikniás ) , χουλιάρι (el) n ( chouliári )
Hungarian: kócsag (hu)
Irish: éigrit f
Italian: garzetta (it) , airone guardabuoi (it)
Japanese: 白鷺 (ja) ( しらさぎ, shirasagi ) , シラサギ (ja) ( shirasagi )
Javanese: kuntul (jv)
Korean: 왜가리 ( waegari ) , 해오라기 (ko) ( hae'oragi ) , 백로(白鷺) (ko) ( baengno )
Malay: bangau (ms)
Malayalam: വെള്ളരിക്കൊക്ക് ( veḷḷarikkokkŭ ) , കൊക്ക് (ml) ( kokkŭ )
Navajo: toohjįʼ ndiigaii
Polish: czapla (pl) f
Portuguese: garça (pt) f
Rohingya: 𐴁𐴡𐴒𐴝 ( boga )
Romanian: egretă (ro) f , stârc alb m
Russian: бе́лая ца́пля f ( bélaja cáplja ) , ца́пля (ru) f ( cáplja )
Spanish: garza (es) f ( Ardea ) , garceta (es) f ( Egretta )
Vietnamese: cò (vi)
Welsh: crëyr m , aderyn y bwn m , adar y bwn m pl
Wolof: xodd gi
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