SPOONBILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spoonbill mean? 

• SPOONBILL (noun)
  The noun SPOONBILL has 1 sense:

1. wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

  Familiarity information: SPOONBILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOONBILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

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

common spoonbill; Platalea leucorodia (pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa)

Ajaia ajaja; roseate spoonbill (tropical rose-colored New World spoonbill)

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

family Plataleidae; Plataleidae (spoonbills)