| 单词 | boat-billed heron |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat-billed heron boat-billed heron n. [compare earlier boatbill heron at boatbill n. 1] (a) a largely nocturnal heron of Central and South America, Cochlearia cochlearia (family Ardeidae), with a large boat-shaped bill and predominantly pale grey plumage; cf. boatbill n. 1; †(b) the shoebill, Balaeniceps rex (family Balaenicipitidae) (obsolete). ΚΠ 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 265 The boat-billed heron of Central America, with a singular shape of the bill that has suggested the name.., constitutes one subfamily, Cancrominæ. 1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals I. xi. 260 Balæniceps, the great boat-billed heron of the Upper Nile. 1925 St. Nicholas Nov. 95/1 The boat-billed heron is a native of South America. 2005 Wilson Bull. 117 150/2 Only once..was a colony of Boat-billed Herons (Cochlearius cochlearius) observed within a few hundred meters of a Jabiru nest. < as lemmas |
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