Usually means: Water bird with distinctive markings.
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  1. moorhen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moorhen: Merriam-Webster
  3. moorhen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moorhen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moorhen: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moorhen: Vocabulary.com
  7. moorhen: Wordnik
  8. moorhen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. moorhen: Wiktionary
  10. moorhen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. moorhen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. moorhen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. moorhen: Dictionary.com
  14. Moorhen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. moorhen: Rhymezone
  16. moorhen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. moorhen: FreeDictionary.org
  18. moorhen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. moorhen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.
noun:  (British) A female red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica.

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