platalea leucorodia

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   pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa

   Synonymscommon spoonbill

   Broaderspoonbill

   Part ofPlatalea

Questions about platalea leucorodia

What does platalea leucorodia mean?

platalea leucorodia means "pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa".

What is another word for platalea leucorodia?

Close synonyms include common spoonbill. 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 platalea leucorodia a common word?

platalea leucorodia 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.