heron : Idioms & Phrases

• noun night heron of both Old and New Worlds
  Nycticorax nycticorax.
  

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• noun tropical American heron related to night herons
  broadbill; boatbill; Cochlearius cochlearius.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known.

Webster 1913

• noun large American heron having bluish-grey plumage
  Ardea herodius.
  

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• noun a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
  American egret; Egretta albus.
  
• noun widely distributed Old World white egret
  Casmerodius albus.
  
• noun large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys
  Ardea occidentalis.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Erodium
  storksbill.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant of the genus Erodium; so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.

Webster 1913

• noun small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere
  Egretta caerulea.
  

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• noun nocturnal or crepuscular herons
  night raven.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of herons of the genus Nycticorax, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is Nycticorax griseus, or N. nycticorax, of Europe, and the American variety (var. nævius). The yellow-crowned night heron (Nycticorax violaceus) inhabits the Southern States. Called also qua-bird, and squawk.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.

Webster 1913

• noun small New World egret
  snowy egret; Egretta thula.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chili; called also plume bird.

Webster 1913

• noun North American night heron
  Nyctanassa violacea.
  

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