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Hornbill   /hˈɔrnbˌɪl/   Listen
Hornbill

noun
1.
Bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers.





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"Hornbill" Quotes from Famous Books



... any awkwardness or apparent uselessness in its parts. After sketching one day several heads of birds it became a vital matter of interest to me to know the use of the bony process on the head of the hornbill; but on asking a great physiologist, I found that it appeared to him an absurd question, and was certainly an ...
— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Hornbill" :   coraciiform bird, family Bucerotidae, Bucerotidae


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