boatbill

Questions about boatbill

What does boatbill mean?

boatbill means "tropical American heron related to night herons".

How many syllables are in boatbill?

boatbill has 3 syllables and divides as bo-at-bill under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for boatbill?

Close synonyms include boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boatbill a common word?

boatbill is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.