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Boat-billed Heron

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Noun

1. boat-billed heron, boatbill, broadbill, cochlearius cochlearius

tropical American heron related to night herons

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Boat-billed Heron

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a nocturnal, tropical American wading bird (Cochlearius cochlearius) with a large, broad bill: it is the only member of a family (Cochleariidae) of wading birds

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Boat-billed Heron

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n.
A tropical American wading bird (Cochlearius cochlearius) having a large bill shaped like an inverted boat.

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