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boatbill
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun boatbill has 1 sense
- boatbill(n = noun.animal) boat-billed heron, broadbill, cochlearius cochlearius - tropical American heron related to night herons; Array is a kind of heron
is a member of cochlearius, genus cochlearius
CIDE DICTIONARY
boatbill, n.
- A wading bird (
Cancroma cochlearia ) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. [1913 Webster] - A perching bird of India, of the genus
Eurylaimus . [1913 Webster]
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