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hornbill|ˈhɔːnbɪl|
[f. horn n. + bill n.2]
1. A bird of the family Bucerotidæ, so called from the horn-like excrescence surmounting the bill.
Formerly called horned crow, horned pie.
1773Pennant Genera of Birds p. xxix. and 8. 1781 Latham Gen. Synops. Birds I. 341. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 89 Of the Hornbills in general..[Their bills] have frequently a protuberance, somewhat resembling another bill, on the upper mandible. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 167 The enormous beak of the hornbill..forms one enormous air-cell. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 435 The Hornbills, of which more than 60 species have been described, form a very natural and in some respects an isolated group.
2. Comb. hornbill cuckoo, the keel-billed cuckoo, Crotophaga, of N. America. |