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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of herons, containing the buff-backed heron, B. ibis, formerly called Ardea bubulcus and Ardea russata, chiefly an African species, related to the squacco heron.

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  • noun small white egrets

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  • Genus name of the cattle egret, from Latin bubulcus, a cowherd or plowman.

    March 25, 2008

  • What a word!

    August 2, 2008