great blue heron

1. 1.

   large American heron having bluish-grey plumage

   SynonymsArdea herodius

   Broaderheron

   Part ofArdea

Questions about great blue heron

What does great blue heron mean?

great blue heron means "large American heron having bluish-grey plumage".

What is another word for great blue heron?

Close synonyms include Ardea herodius. 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 great blue heron a common word?

great blue heron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.