Term: american egret: a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: blastema: a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: bitthead: the upper end of a bitt
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: snipefish: small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: doe: mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: mononychus olecranus: a turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's; short forelimbs end in a single claw instead of wings; classification as bird or dinosaur is in dispute
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: apatosaur: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: stink bomb: a small bomb designed to give off a foul odor when it explodes
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: epiphenomenon: a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: ovotestis: hermaphroditic gonad that contains both testicular and ovarian tissue
Broader: egret: any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | Unrelated: drudgery: hard monotonous routine work