英：['bəʊtbɪl]
美：['boʊtbɪl]
boatbill如何读
boatbill是什么意思
- n.苍鹭的一种
boatbill英英释义
noun
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
broadbill sense 2
boatbill 例句
1 The boatbill, of which only one species is known, seems to be merely a night-heron with an exaggerated bill,—so much widened as to suggest its English name,—but has always been allowed generic rank.
2 Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
3 While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you.
4 The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the bal�niceps, and not a true resemblance.
5 The nostrils differ in form and position in those two birds, and in the boatbill there exists beneath the lower mandible a dilatable pouch that we do not find in the bal�niceps.
6 Parker, in his notes upon the osteology of the bal�niceps, this bird recalls the boatbill, the heron, and the adjutant.
7 If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.
8 Verreaux believes that its nearest relative is the adjutant, whose ways it has, and that it represents in this group what the boatbill represents in the heron genus.