Crossword clues for broadbill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels.]
A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]
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(Zo["o]l.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scaup duck (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ( Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck ( A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ( A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ( A. marila), closely resembles the American variety.
Shoveler \Shov"el*er\, n. [Also shoveller.]
One who, or that which, shovels.
(Zo["o]l.) A river duck ( Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck ( S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several ducks, having a broad bill, including the shoveler 2 Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae.
WordNet
n. tropical American heron related to night herons [syn: boatbill, boat-billed heron, Cochlearius cochlearius]
diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill [syn: scaup, scaup duck, bluebill]
freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill [syn: shoveler, shoveller, Anas clypeata]
small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills
Wikipedia
The broadbills are a clade of small passerine birds, Eurylaimidae (named after the type genus Eurylaimus). The Smithornis and Pseudocalyptomena species occur in sub-Saharan Africa; the rest extend from the eastern Himalayas to Indonesia and the Philippines. The family possibly also includes the sapayoa from the Neotropics and the asities from Madagascar, although many taxonomists now separate each of the three into distinct families.
Broadbills are a family of birds. Other uses include:
- Broadbills, a common alternate name for monarch flycatchers in the genus Myiagra
- An alternate name for the lesser scaup, a North American duck
- An alternate name for the swordfish.
- The USS Broadbill, a name of two US Naval ships
Usage examples of "broadbill".
They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.
I was tremendously thrilled by the sight of an amazingly large broadbill swordfish.
I was especially curious about this drifting with bait down deep, which was something I had always wanted to try on broadbill swordfish.
I let him have it longer than I ever let even a broadbill play with a bait.
Surely that brown-hooked rakish leathery dorsal could not belong to a broadbill swordfish, one of my old gladiator friends way down here in the Antipodes!
I wanted to excite these boatmen who had scarcely ever heard of a broadbill, I performed rather violently and strenuously, which soon told upon me.
Russell to see their families, and no doubt to talk fish, especially the broadbill battle.
He actually had something of the look of a broadbill swordfish without the sword.
I thought we were going to have a smooth, glassy sea, and had my eyes keen for broadbill fins.
Any moment I might raise an enormous black Marlin or a great sailfish or mako, or even a broadbill, not to think of some new species of fish.
Could it really be true that I had caught a broadbill, way out in New Zealand?
Such a marvelous and amazing fish as the broadbill had never been imagined by them.
I not only consented to that, but told them to have the broadbill cut up so everybody in the village could eat some of it.
Nevertheless, you must almost do that if you expect to see a Marlin or a mako or a broadbill flash up out of the depths.
Avalon, when thousands of people would flock out to see a broadbill I had brought in.