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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various birds with large bills, especially the boat-billed heron.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A South American bird, Cochlearia (or Cancroma) cochlearia, related to the true herons: so named from the shape and size of the bill, which is very broad and much vaulted.
  • noun One of the broadbills, Eurylæmidæ, a group of perching birds characteristic of the Indo-Malayan region; in particular, Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus. See cut under gaper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
  • noun A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A form of heron, Cochlearius cochlearius, native to Central and South America

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tropical American heron related to night herons

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