Definitions for boatbill

boatbill boat·bill

Spelling: [boht-bil]
IPA: /ˈboʊtˌbɪl/

Boatbill is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in boatbill (abbillot).

Definitions for boatbill

noun

  1. a wading bird, Cochlearius cochlearius, of tropical America, related to the herons, having a broad bill resembling an inverted boat.

Origin of boatbill

First recorded in 1770-80; boat + bill2

Examples for boatbill

Whoever has once set eyes on the boatbill or Savacou (Fig. 140) will never forget the bird, or confound it with any other.

Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.

If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.

Word Value for boatbill
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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