From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgrebegrebe /ɡriːb/ noun [countable] HBBa water bird similar to a duck
Examples from the Corpus
grebe• On deeper water teal, mallard and great crested grebes bobbed and coots squawked and chased each other noisily.• We heard the growling call-note of great crested grebes.• Red-heads dive constantly like grebes, but have conspicuously whiter cheeks, and are also much whiter than other small diving ducks.• A little grebe paddled with surprising speed through the water.• Moorhens, mallards, grebes and a heron work the murky water for their evening meals.• Among those first to die were cormorants and black-necked grebes.• Seabirds were badly affected, with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die.• He had an interested audience of mallard, water-hen and the solitary grebe.Origin grebe (1700-1800) French grèbe 