Defenition of the word heron

• Defenition of the word heron

  • A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
  • gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
  • Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
  • grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

Synonyms for the word heron

• • hern

Meronymys for the word heron

• • Ardeidae
  • family Ardeidae

Hyponyms for the word heron

• • Ardea herodius
  • Ardea occidentalis
  • bittern
  • boat-billed heron
  • boatbill
  • broadbill
  • Cochlearius cochlearius
  • egret
  • Egretta caerulea
  • great blue heron
  • great white heron
  • little blue heron
  • night heron
  • night raven

Hypernyms for the word heron

• • artificer
  • discoverer
  • inventor
  • mathematician
  • surname
  • wader
  • wading bird

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