spoonbill
Kelime Anlamı :

1. kaşıkçı.
2. kaşıkçı balıkçıl.
3. Platalea.
4. kaşıklı balıkçıl.
5. spatül kuşu.
6. kaşıkçın.
7. i., zool. kaşıkçın, kaşıkgaga.
8. Spatula clypeata.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
Tanımlar :
1. any of several long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, similar to the ibis but having a long, flat bill with a broadly spatulate tip.
2. any of various broad-billed ducks, such as the shoveler.
3. see paddlefish.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. any of various large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the ibises, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
2. A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the mississippi/missouri river basin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.
2. the shoveler. see shoveler, 2.
3. the ruddy duck. see under ruddy.
4. the paddlefish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. in ornithology: A large grallatorial bird of either of the genera Platalea and Aiaia: so called from the broad, flat, spatulate dilatation of the end of the bill, likened to a spoon. see cuts under Platalea and aiaia.
2. the shoveler-duck, spatula clypeata. see cut under shoveler.
3. the scaupduck, Fuligula marila. see cut under scaup.
4. the ruddy duck. Erismatura rubida; the broadbill: more fully called spoon-billed butterball. see cut under Erismatura.
5. in ichthyology, the spoon-billed cat, or paddle-fish, Polyodon spatula. see cuts under paddle-fish.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
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