heron
English Thesaurus
1. grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | wader, wading bird, |
| definition | : | any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ardea herodius, great blue heron, |
| definition | : | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ardea occidentalis, great white heron, |
| definition | : | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | egret, |
| definition | : | any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | egretta caerulea, little blue heron, |
| definition | : | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | night heron, night raven, |
| definition | : | nocturnal or crepuscular herons (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | boat-billed heron, boatbill, broadbill, cochlearius cochlearius, |
| definition | : | tropical American heron related to night herons (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | bittern, |
| definition | : | relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | ardeidae, family ardeidae, |
| definition | : | herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns (noun.animal) |
2. Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | artificer, discoverer, inventor, |
| definition | : | someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person) |
| instance hypernym | : | mathematician, |
| definition | : | a person skilled in mathematics (noun.person) |
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