heron
Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
A kind of
- wading bird
Kinds of heron
- night heron
- boat-billed heron
Related words
- American night heron
- black-crowned night heron
- great blue heron
- great white heron
- Nankeen night heron
- rufous night heron
- green heron
- grey heron
- heronlike
- heronry
- heronsbill
- Herons Creek
Word history
From Medieval Latin "hairō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “heron” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.