Definitions for boatbills

boatbills boat·bill

Spelling: [boht-bil]
IPA: /ˈboʊtˌbɪl/

Boatbills is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in boatbills (abbillost).

Definitions for boatbills

noun

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

Origin of boatbills

First recorded in 1770-80; boat + bill2

Examples for boatbills

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

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.

Word Value for boatbills
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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