spoonbill

English

Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

Spoonbill (fish)

Etymology

From spoon +‎ bill, owing to the shape of the animal's beak.

Noun

spoonbill (plural spoonbills)

1. Any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
2. (US) A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri river basin, or extinct close relatives.

   Synonym: paddlefish

Derived terms

• African spoonbill (Platalea alba)
• black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)
• Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
• roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
• royal spoonbill (Platalea regia)
• yellow-billed spoonbill (Platalea flavipes)

Translations

bird

• Asturian: paletón (ast)
• Bulgarian: лопатарка f (lopatarka)
• Catalan: becplaner m, espàtula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 琵鷺 / 琵鹭 (zh) (pílù)

• Danish: skestork (da) c
• Dutch: lepelaar (nl) m
• Faroese: spónnev n
• Finnish: kapustahaikara (fi)
• French: spatule (fr) f
• German: Löffler (de) m
• Hebrew: כַּפָּן (he) m (kapán)
• Hungarian: kanalasgém (hu)
• Ido: spatulucelo
• Italian: spatola (it) f
• Japanese: 箆鷺 (ja) (ヘラサギ, herasagi)
• Korean: 저어새 (jeo'eosae)
• Latin: platalea f
• Macedonian: лажичарка f (lažičarka)
• Manx: gob lhean m
• Mudburra: damburrngarna
• Navajo: dááʼadeeʼii
• Portuguese: colhereiro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਡੋਈ ਬਗ m (ḍoī bag)
• Romanian: lopătar (ro) m
• Russian: ко́лпица (ru) f (kólpica)
• Spanish: espátula (es) f
• Swedish: skedstork (sv) c
• Telugu: తెడ్డుమూతికొంగ (te) (teḍḍumūtikoṅga)
• Turkish: kaşıkçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: косар m (kosar)
• Welsh: llwybig m, llydanbig m

paddlefish — see paddlefish

Further reading

• spoonbill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• paddlefish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia