heliornis

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In ornithology: A genus of lobiped birds, typical of the family Heliornithidæ: the South American sun-birds. There is but one species, H. surinamensis or H. fulica. Bonnaterre,1790. Podoa (Illiger, 1811) is the same.
• noun A genus of birds, of the family Eurypygidæ; the sun-bitterns. Also called Helias.
• noun In entomology, a genus of lepidopterous insects.