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Bill
noun · 78% connection
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Chough
noun · 78% connection
A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Curlew
noun · 78% connection
A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Flamingo
noun · 78% connection
large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Gallinule
noun · 78% connection
One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Godwit
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringidae. The European black-tailed godwit (Limos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Hawk
noun · 78% connection
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the promi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Heron
noun · 78% connection
Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Ibis
noun · 78% connection
Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous specie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Ignoramus
noun · 78% connection
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Jacana
noun · 78% connection
Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are ab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Kangaroo
noun · 78% connection
Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Limpkin
noun · 78% connection
Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are remarkable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Long
adjective · 78% connection
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Long-lived
adjective · 78% connection
Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.
Moa
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: several, species, large, wading, birds.