Heron
['her(ə)n] or ['hɛrən]
Definition
(noun.) grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill.
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Definition
(n.) 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 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hernshaw, heronshaw.
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Definition
n. a large screaming water-fowl with long legs and neck.—n. Her′onry a place where herons breed.
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- While she looked a heron arose on that side of the sky and flew on with his face towards the sun. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When she was in a high wind her light body was blown against trees and banks like a heron's. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- HERON FOSTER, editor of a Pittsburgh journal, and a most estimable gentleman. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But there was no reply to Wildeve's shout, save a mournful whining from the herons which were nesting lower down the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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