Fūl'i-cā, n.

n. [Lat., a coot.] (Ornith.) A genus of aquatic birds; the coot. F. atra, found throughout Europe and in Japan, and indigenous to Great Britain, is black, with the exception of the beak, which is white, and also of a plate or lobe extending from the bill nearly to the crown of the head, and which, being destitute of feathers, and smooth, has given rise to the name bald-coot, by which it is often known. Baird.