shoebill

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Noun

HYPHEN

shoe=bill

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shoebill has 1 sense

shoebill(n = noun.animal) balaeniceps rex, shoebird - large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe;

is a kind of wader, wading bird

is a member of balaeniceps, genus balaeniceps

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CIDE DICTIONARY

shoebill, n.

A large African wading bird (Balæniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak. [1913 Webster]