Definition of broadbill Broadbill
broad•bill
We found 9 definitions of broadbill from 4 different sources.
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What does broadbill mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: broadbills |
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| broadbill - small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | ||
| passeriform bird, passerine perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | ||
| broadbill - diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | ||
| scaup, scaup duck, bluebill | ||
| duck small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | ||
| aythya, genus aythya canvasback; redhead; pochard; etc. | ||
| aythya marila, greater scaup large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male | ||
| broadbill - freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill | ||
| shoveler, shoveller, Anas clypeata | ||
| duck small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | ||
| broadbill - tropical American heron related to night herons | ||
| boatbill, boat-billed heron, Cochlearius cochlearius | ||
| heron grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- broadbill (n.)
A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck. - broadbill (n.)
The shoveler. See Shoveler.
Part of speech
🔤- broadbill, noun, singular of broadbills.
