Synonyms:
heron
Meaning: grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
Synonyms:
Hero, Heron, Hero_of_Alexandria
Meaning: Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
Usage examples
For the third time she was as it were in the heron's throat!
The gulls once gone, the heron applies itself with redoubled zeal to its business.
The heron, coming up behind her, cautiously bends its neck over the drifting piece of reed.
As he rode off he called my attention to a great blue heron just then flying over the swamp.
It reminds the fisherman of a heron he once shot at, and which sent out a shower of such half-dead little fish.
----Meanwhile, the keen-eyed heron, wading up to its breast in the water, comes softly and silently trawling through the ditch.
Just as the heron has brought its beak close to the surface of the water, ready to seize its prey, the gulls dash upon it from behind.
A heron had seen it lying in a pond, but a wild duck in some reeds had seen it last as she came home across the hills, and then it was rolling very far away.
Even the sharp-eyed heron, which had dropped down unnoticed about a dozen yards off, and was now noiselessly, with slow, cautious steps, wading nearer and nearer, took her at the first glance for a stick.
True enough, about the edges of the water were two or three solitary sandpipers, and at least half a dozen of the smaller yellowlegs,--two additions to my Florida list,--not to speak of a little blue heron and a green heron, the latter in most uncommonly green plumage.