heron
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- n Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
- n grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
- In his cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire.
- Across these carefully recorded scenes, he shows the track, the flicker, the expression of life, even if the living object has long since departedthe print of a heron on the .
- Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning.