BROADBILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadbill mean? 

• BROADBILL (noun)
  The noun BROADBILL has 4 senses:

1. tropical American heron related to night herons

2. diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill

3. freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill

4. small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills

  Familiarity information: BROADBILL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADBILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American heron related to night herons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

boat-billed heron; boatbill; broadbill; Cochlearius cochlearius

Hypernyms ("broadbill" is a kind of...):

heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)

Holonyms ("broadbill" is a member of...):

Cochlearius; genus Cochlearius (boatbills)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bluebill; broadbill; scaup; scaup duck

Hypernyms ("broadbill" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broadbill"):

Aythya marila; greater scaup (large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male)

Aythya affinis; lake duck; lesser scaup; lesser scaup duck (common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads)

Holonyms ("broadbill" is a member of...):

Aythya; genus Aythya (canvasback; redhead; pochard; etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anas clypeata; broadbill; shoveler; shoveller

Hypernyms ("broadbill" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Holonyms ("broadbill" is a member of...):

Anas; genus Anas (type genus of the Anatidae: freshwater ducks)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("broadbill" is a kind of...):

passeriform bird; passerine (perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless)

Holonyms ("broadbill" is a member of...):

Eurylaimidae; family Eurylaimidae (coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi)