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say it: HER-uhn
heron is a noun meaning "Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heron come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.