spoonbill
- n wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
- But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp.
- It is not funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite .
- Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull.