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BOATBILL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boatbill mean?
• BOATBILL (noun)
The noun BOATBILL has 1 sense:
1. tropical American heron related to night herons
Familiarity information: BOATBILL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American heron related to night herons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
boat-billed heron; boatbill; broadbill; Cochlearius cochlearius
Hypernyms ("boatbill" is a kind of...):
heron (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)
Holonyms ("boatbill" is a member of...):
Cochlearius; genus Cochlearius (boatbills)
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