boatbill

noun

1

or boat-billed heron

ˈ⸗¦⸗-

: a wading bird (Cochlearius cochlearius) of tropical America related to the night herons and distinguished by a broadly convex bill suggesting an overturned boat

2

: broadbill sense 2

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