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Definition of Water ousel

Water ousel
Water ousel Wa"ter ou"sel, Water ouzel Wa"ter ou"zel . (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.
Water ousel
Ousel Ou"sel, n. [OE. osel, AS. ?sle; akin to G. amsel, OHG. amsala, and perh. to L. merula blackbird. Cf. Merle, Amsel.] (Zo["o]l.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). [Written also ouzel.] Rock ousel (Zo["o]l.), the ring ousel. Water ousel (Zo["o]l.), the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus).

Meaning of Water ousel from wikipedia

- also known in Britain and America, respectively, as the water ouzel (sometimes spelt "ousel") – ouzel originally meant the only distantly related but...
- Look up ouzel or ousel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ouzel may refer to: Common blackbird or ouzel, a species of thrush, all-black in the male Lord...
- dippers, the European representative of which is sometimes known as the water ouzel. "Ring Ouzel" was first used by John Ray in his 1674 Collection of...
- stone are, beautifully represented in medallions and in natural size, a water-ousel and a kingfisher, one on either side ... The writer was a Leeds pastor...
- as the owl of Cwm Cowlyd Who tells her sorrow nightly on the wind. The ousel singing in the woods of Cilgwri, Tirelessly as a stream over the mossed...
- March 1963, p.10 Obituary, The Ousel, Vol.LXXIII, No.870, July 1969, p.119 The Ousel Vol.L****VIII, No.916, p.5 The Ousel Vol.XCII, No.933, December 1989...
- Bedford School produces several magazines, of which the most prominent is The Ousel, published regularly since 1876. It is largely written by boys and managed...
- 23 August 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Obituary, The Ousel, Vol.XLIX, No.740, 8 December 1945, p.106 "No. 25554". The London Gazette...
- known as the Sidehill Dodger, Sidehill Hoofer, Side-hill Gazink, Sidehill Ousel, Sidehill Loper, Sidehill Galoot, Gyascutus, Sidewinder, Wampus, Boofum...
- topics as varied as whether swallows hibernate or migrate (letter 10), ring ousels (letter 20), whether pea**** trains are really tails (letter 35), and thunderstorms...