Heron Synonyms

hĕrən
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
Synonyms:
  1. hero
  2. Hero of Alexandria

Words Related to Heron

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. herons
  2. squacco
  3. wagtail
  4. tricolored
  5. stork
  6. teal
  7. kingfishers
  8. dove
  9. kingfisher
  10. cormorant
  11. sandpiper
  12. boat-billed

Heron Sentence Examples

  • Wolves are numerous in the mountains; the heron, ibis, wild goose and snipe in the valley of the Wei.

  • The common bittern (Botaurus stellaris) is nearly as large as the heron, and is widely distributed over the eastern hemisphere.

  • The snowy heron is a rare plume bird seen occasionally along the coast.

  • In the garzeros of Venezuela are to be found nearly every kind of heron, crane, stork and ibis, together with an incredible number of Grallatores.

  • C. Taylor remarked (Ibis, 18 59, p. 51), that the buff-backed heron, Ardea bubulcus, was made by the tourists' dragomans to do duty for the "sacred ibis," and this seems to be no novel practice, since by it, or something like it, Hasselqvist was misled, and through him Linnaeus.

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