Home › Words › N › nativehennativehennativehen means any member of genus Tribonyx of rails, of Australia.EtymologyFrom native + hen.nounAny member of genus Tribonyx of rails, of Australia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.tetraonid 62% match — A bird belonging to the tribe Tetraonini, of which the genus Tetrao is the type. vs nativehen →waterhen 61% match — A species of bird in the genus Amaurornis of the family Rallidae. vs nativehen →heathwren 60% match — Any of the birds in genus Hylacola (sometimes included in Calamanthus), native to Australia. vs nativehen →ornithorhynchus 60% match — A platypus (genus Ornithorhynchus). vs nativehen →atrichornithid 59% match — Any member of the Atrichornithidae. vs nativehen →bronzewing 58% match — Any of several species of bird in the genera Henicophaps and Phaps in the pigeon family, found in Australasia. vs nativehen →ralline 57% match — Of, or pertaining to members of the Rallidae family (also referred to as rails). vs nativehen →straightbill 57% match — Any of the birds in the genus Timeliopsis, found in Australia. vs nativehen →