Usually means: Long-legged, white, wading bird.
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  1. egret: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. egret: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. egret: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. egret: Collins English Dictionary
  5. egret: Vocabulary.com
  6. Egret, egret: Wordnik
  7. egret: Wiktionary
  8. egret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. egret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. egret: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Egret, egret: Dictionary.com
  12. egret: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Egret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Egret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. egret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. egret: Rhymezone
  17. Egret: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. egret: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. EGRET, egret: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. egret: Free Dictionary
  21. egret: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. egret: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. egret: Medical dictionary

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  1. EGRET: Acronym Finder
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noun:  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.
noun:  A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament.
noun:  (botany) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
noun:  (obsolete) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

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