spoonbill

English

Etymology

From spoon +‎ bill, owing to the shape of the animal's beak.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspunˌbɪl/

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Noun

spoonbill (plural spoonbills)

1. Any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
2. (US) A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the river basins of Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, or its extinct close relatives.

   Synonym: paddlefish

Derived terms

• African spoonbill (Platalea alba)
• black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)
• Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
• roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
• royal spoonbill (Platalea regia)
• yellow-billed spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)

Translations

bird

Asturian: paletón (ast) Bulgarian: лопатарка f (lopatarka) Catalan: becplaner m, espàtula (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 琵鷺 / 琵鹭 (zh) (pílù) Hokkien: 抐桮 (zh-min-nan) (lā-poe) Czech: kolpík m Danish: skestork (da) c Dutch: lepelaar (nl) m Faroese: spónnev n Finnish: kapustahaikara (fi) French: spatule (fr) f German: Löffler (de) m Hebrew: כַּפָּן (he) m (kapán) Hungarian: kanalasgém (hu) Ido: spatulucelo Italian: spatola (it) f Japanese: 箆鷺 (ja) (ヘラサギ, herasagi) Korean: 저어새 (jeo'eosae) Latin: platalea f Macedonian: лажичарка f (lažičarka) Manx: gob lhean m Mudburra: damburrngarna Navajo: dááʼadeeʼii Portuguese: colhereiro (pt) m Punjabi: ਡੋਈ ਬਗ m (ḍoī bag) Romanian: lopătar (ro) m Russian: ко́лпица (ru) f (kólpica) Spanish: espátula (es) f Swedish: skedstork (sv) c Telugu: తెడ్డుమూతికొంగ (te) (teḍḍumūtikoṅga) Turkish: kaşıkçı (tr) Ukrainian: косар m (kosar) Welsh: llwybig m, llydanbig m

paddlefish — see paddlefish

Further reading

• spoonbill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• paddlefish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia