Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun broadbill

4 senses of broadbill

Sense 1
boatbill, boat-billed heron, broadbill, Cochlearius cochlearius -- (tropical American heron related to night herons)
       => heron -- (grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill)

Sense 2
scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill -- (diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill)
       => duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Sense 3
shoveler, shoveller, broadbill, Anas clypeata -- (freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill)
       => duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Sense 4
broadbill -- (small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills)
       => passerine, passeriform bird -- (perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless)