boatbill

/boht-bil/US // ˈboʊtˌbɪl //UK // (ˈbəʊtˌbɪl) //

船票,船旗,船运单,船务局

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, of tropical America, related to the herons, having a broad bill resembling an inverted boat.

Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
Whoever has once set eyes on the Boatbill or Savacou (Fig. 140) will never forget the bird, or confound it with any other.
If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.