An American alligator chomps a snowy egret at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida.
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Egret
//ˈiːɡɹɪt//
Synonyms for "egret" (4 found)
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11 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أبو قردان noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- أَبُو قِرْدَان noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Assamese
2 entries- বগ noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- বগলী noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Bengali
1 entries- বক noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бя́ла ча́пла noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Catalan
2 entries- agró noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- martinet noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Chinese
2 entries- 白鷺 /白鹭 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- 白鷺鷥 /白鹭鸶 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 白鷺 /白鹭 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Czech
1 entries- volavka noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Dutch
1 entries- reiger noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Esperanto
1 entries- egreto noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Finnish
1 entries- jalohaikara noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
French
1 entries- aigrette noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Galician
2 entries- garza noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- garzota noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
German
1 entries- Reiher noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Greek
2 entries- τσικνιάς noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- χουλιάρι noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Hungarian
1 entries- kócsag noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Irish
1 entries- éigrit noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Italian
2 entries- airone guardabuoi noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- garzetta noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Japanese
2 entries- シラサギ noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- 白鷺 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Javanese
1 entries- kuntul noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Korean
3 entries- 백로 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- 왜가리 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- 해오라기 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Malay
1 entries- bangau noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Malayalam
2 entries- കൊക്ക് noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- വെള്ളരിക്കൊക്ക് noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Navajo
1 entries- toohjįʼ ndiigaii noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Polish
1 entries- czapla noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Portuguese
1 entries- garça noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Rohingya
1 entries- 𐴁𐴡𐴒𐴝 noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Romanian
2 entries- egretă noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- stârc alb noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Russian
2 entries- бе́лая ца́пля noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- ца́пля noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Spanish
2 entries- garceta noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- garza noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cò noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Welsh
3 entries- adar y bwn noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- aderyn y bwn noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
- crëyr noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Wolof
1 entries- xodd gi noun (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The egret is catching fish.
Source: tatoeba (12294052)
Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides.
Source: wiktionary
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