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Balaeniceps rex, a tall wading bird related to the stork, native to tropical African swamps; the sole species of the family Balaenicipitidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shoebird, Balaeniceps rex
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wading bird, wader
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
skoenbekooievaar
— wading bird
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Albanian:
lejleku sqepgjerë
— wading bird
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Arabic:
أبو مركوب
('abu markub)
— wading bird
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Assamese:
জোতাঠোঁটীয়া
(zütathü̃tia)
— wading bird
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Asturian:
picozapato
— wading bird
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Breton:
beg-botez
— wading bird
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Bulgarian:
китоглава чапла
(kitoglava čapla)
— wading bird
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Catalan:
bec d'esclop
— wading bird
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Chinese Mandarin:
鯨頭鸛 /鲸头鹳
(jīngtóuguàn)
— wading bird
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Czech:
člunozobec africký
— wading bird
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Danish:
træskonæb
— wading bird
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Dutch:
schoenbekooievaar
— wading bird
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Esperanto:
ŝubekulo
— wading bird
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Finnish:
kenkänokka
— wading bird
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French:
bec-en-sabot du Nil
— wading bird
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French:
abu-markub
— wading bird
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Saterland Frisian:
Schousnoabel
— wading bird
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Galician:
peteiro zapato
— wading bird
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Georgian:
ვეშაპთავა ყანჩა
(vešaṗtava q̇anča)
— wading bird
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German:
Schuhschnabel
— wading bird
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Greek:
φαλαινοκέφαλος
(falainokéfalos)
— wading bird
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Hebrew:
מנעלן
(min'alan)
— wading bird
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Hungarian:
papucscsőrű madár
— wading bird
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Ingush:
зIокармаьчи
(zˀokarmäči)
— wading bird
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Irish:
bróg-ghob
— wading bird
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Italian:
becco a scarpa
— wading bird
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Japanese:
嘴広鸛
(hashibiro-kō)
— wading bird
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Kazakh:
наханбасты
(naxanbasty)
— wading bird
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Korean:
넓적부리황새
(neopjeokburihwangsae)
— wading bird
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Latvian:
tupeļknābis
— wading bird
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Lithuanian:
batasnapis
— wading bird
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Luganda:
bbuulwe
— wading bird
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Malayalam:
ഷൂബിൽ
(ṣūbil)
— wading bird
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Navajo:
chʼídeeldlóohiitsoh
— wading bird
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Norwegian Bokmål:
treskonebb
— wading bird
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
treskonebb
— wading bird
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Polish:
trzewikodziób
— wading bird
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Portuguese:
bico-de-tamanco
— wading bird
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Romanian:
abumarkub
— wading bird
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Romanian:
pasărea sabot
— wading bird
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Russian:
китогла́в
(kitogláv)
— wading bird
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Russian:
короле́вская ца́пля
(korolévskaja cáplja)
— wading bird
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Scots:
shaebill
— wading bird
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Scottish Gaelic:
corra bròg-ghobach
— wading bird
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Serbo-Croatian:
рода ципеларка
— wading bird
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Serbo-Croatian:
roda cipelarka
— wading bird
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Slovak:
člnozobec kráľovský
— wading bird
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Slovene:
čevljekljun
— wading bird
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Spanish:
picozapato
— wading bird
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Swedish:
träskonäbb
— wading bird
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Tamil:
காலணி-அலகு நாரை
(kālaṇi-alaku nārai)
— wading bird
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Thai:
นกกระสาปากพลั่ว
(nók grà-săa bpàak plûa)
— wading bird
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Turkish:
pabuç gagalı
— wading bird
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Ukrainian:
китоголо́в
(kytoholóv)
— wading bird
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Vietnamese:
cò mỏ giày
— wading bird
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Welsh:
ciconia pig esgid
— wading bird