- egret - any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
--1 is a kind of heron
--1 has particulars:snowy egret, snowy heron, Egretta thula; little egret, Egretta garzetta; great white heron, Casmerodius albus; American egret, great white heron, Egretta albus; cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis