Heron

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  • noun. Any of various wading birds of the family Ardeidae, having a long neck, long legs, a long pointed bill, and usually white, gray, or bluish-gray plumage.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A long-legged, long-necked, long-billed, slender-bodied wading bird; any bird of the family Ardeidœ, but especially of the subfamily Ardeinœ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidæ. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
  • noun. a plant of the genus Erodium; -- so called from the fancied resemblance of the fruit to the head and beak of the heron.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
  • noun. grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
    • cross-reference
    purple heron  
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    artificer  discoverer  inventor  mathematician  
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    Aaron  Aran  Aron  Charon  Karen  
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    bittern  crane  curlew  dove  egret  
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