Boatbill is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOATBILL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a bird of the heron family (from the shape of its bill)
• a small Central and South American heron with a broad flattened bill and a prominent black crest.
• a flycatcher that has a very broad flattened bill with a hooked tip, found mainly in New Guinea.
• nocturnal tropical American wading bird with a broad flattened bill
• A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
• A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.
• tropical American heron related to night herons
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a wading bird

Words related to BOATBILL

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Words that contain BOATBILL

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How to use BOATBILL in a sentence

• Verreaux believes that its nearest relative is the adjutant, whose ways it has, and that it represents in this group what the boatbill represents in the heron genus.
• Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
• If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.
• Parker, in his notes upon the osteology of the balaeniceps, this bird recalls the boatbill, the heron, and the adjutant.
• The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the balaeniceps, and not a true resemblance.

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