Crossword-Solution: BOATBILL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Boatbill | n. | A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost. |
| Boatbill | n. | A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BOATBILL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AMERICAN heron | 1 answer |
| HERON with bill like overturned boat | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American heron | 1 answer |
| nocturnal tropical American wading bird with a broad flattened bill | 1 answer |
| tropical American heron related to night herons | 1 answer |
| Heron | 8 answers |
| BRAZILIAN bird | 21 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
| American bird | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BOATBILL (5)
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.
Parker, in his notes upon the osteology of the balæniceps, this bird recalls the boatbill, the heron, and the adjutant.
The curious form of the bill, in fact, explains this comparison with birds belonging to so different groups, and the balæniceps would merit the name of boatbill equally well with the bird so called, since its bill recalls the small fishing boats that we observe keel upward high and dry on our seashores.
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.
The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the balæniceps, and not a true resemblance.