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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun heron has 2 senses
- heron(n = noun.person) hero, hero of alexandria - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century); Array is a kind of artificer, discoverer, inventor, mathematician
- heron(n = noun.animal) Array - grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill; Array is a kind of wader, wading bird
is a member of ardeidae, family ardeidae
has particulars: ardea herodius, great blue heron, ardea occidentalis, great white heron, egret, egretta caerulea, little blue heron, night heron, night raven, boat-billed heron, boatbill, broadbill, cochlearius cochlearius, bittern
CIDE DICTIONARY
heron, n. [OE. heiroun, heroun, heron, hern, OF. hairon, F. héron, OHG. heigir; cf. Icel. hegri, Dan. heire, Sw. häger, and also G. häher jay, jackdaw, OHG. hehara, higere, woodpecker, magpie, D. reiger heron, G. reiher, AS. hr. Cf. Aigret, Egret.].
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ . The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea ) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons. [1913 Webster]
" There are several common American species; as, the great blue heron (Ardea herodias ); the little blue (Ardea cœrulea ); the green (Ardea virescens ); the snowy (Ardea candidissima ); the night heron or qua-bird (Nycticorax nycticorax ). The plumed herons are called egrets ."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
heron, n. any of various large wading birds of the family Ardeidae, esp. Ardea cinerea, with long legs and a long S-shaped neck.
Derivative
heronry n. (pl. -ies).
Etymology
ME f. OF hairon f. Gmc
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