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What does egret mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
  3. (botany) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
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We also ran into a bullfrog big enough to choke an egret, as you can tell from its photo.
The tilapia's numerous small bones can choke its predators, even the egret, which can swallow all other fish.
Others have made themselves welcome recently – the rose-ringed parakeet, the egret and the collared dove among them.
Out there, among the cypress and the palm, where the alligator solitarily glides and the egret sails in chevron, sanctuary beckoned.
We saw hippo and elephant but for me highlights were a rare slaty egret, an in-your-face look at a marabou stork standing over a single egg on its head-high nest.
Many an egret has cursedly cawed my name as it rose slowly over the little lake.

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