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waterfowl

noun

Etymology

From Middle English waterfoul, water-foul, equivalent to water + fowl. Compare Old English dopfugel (“waterfowl, moorhen”, literally “dipping-fowl”).

  1. inherited from waterfoul

Definitions

  1. Any of the birds, such as ducks, geese and swans, that spend most of their non-flying…

    Any of the birds, such as ducks, geese and swans, that spend most of their non-flying time on water; especially those of the family Anatidae.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at waterfowl. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at waterfowl. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at waterfowl

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA