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Significados de boat-billed heron em inglês

Tropical American heron related to night herons.

        Sinônimos
        Examples for "boatbill"
        Examples for "boatbill"
        1
        Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
        2
        An osteological examination leads Parker to place the balæniceps near the boatbill, and the present classification is based upon that opinion.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
        3
        If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
        1
        It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
        The old man and the sea
        2
        That would not have mattered if I had not hurt my back in an eleven-hour fight with a giant broadbill swordfish.
        Tales of lonely trails