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noun. Any of several long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, having a long, flat bill with a broadly spatulate tip.

noun. Any of various broad-billed ducks, such as the shoveler.

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noun. In ornithology: A large grallatorial bird of either of the genera Platalea and Aiaia: so called from the broad, flat, spatulate dilatation of the end of the bill, likened to a spoon. See cuts under Platalea and aiaia.

noun. The shoveler-duck, Spatula clypeata. See cut under shoveler.

noun. The scaupduck, Fuligula marila. See cut under scaup.

noun. The ruddy duck. Erismatura rubida; the broadbill: more fully called spoon-billed butterball. See cut under Erismatura.

noun. In ichthyology, the spoon-billed cat, or paddle-fish, Polyodon spatula. See cuts under paddle-fish.

noun. Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip.

noun. The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2.

noun. The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.

noun. The paddlefish.

noun. Any of various large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the ibises, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.

noun. A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the Mississippi/Missouri river basin.

noun. wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

"Now what do you do with a spoonbill? can you eat it?"

roseate spoonbill  

wader  wading bird  

ajaia ajaja  common spoonbill  platalea leucorodia  roseate spoonbill  

anyonewho  belongin  bittern  change-up  cotton grass  

paddlefish  

ruddy  shoveler