Shoebill

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoebill \Shoe"bill`\, n. (Zool.)
     A large African wading bird ({Balaeniceps rex}) allied to the
     storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad
     swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See
     Illust. (l.) of {Beak}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shoebill
       n : large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a
           broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe [syn: {shoebird}, {Balaeniceps
           rex}]