Definition of Balaeniceps rex

1. Noun. Large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe.

Exact synonyms: Shoebill, Shoebird
Generic synonyms: Wader, Wading Bird
Group relationships: Balaeniceps, Genus Balaeniceps

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balaeniceps Rex

Bakersfield
Bakersfield sound
Bakewell tart
Bakewell tarts
Bakhtinian
Bakke decision
Baklahorani
Baku
Bakunin
BalI methyltransferase
Balaamite
Balaamites
Balaena
Balaena mysticetus
Balaeniceps
Balaeniceps rex (current term)
Balaenicipitidae
Balaenidae
Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Balaenoptera borealis
Balaenoptera musculus
Balaenoptera physalus
Balaenopteridae
Balanchine
Balanidae
Balanites aegyptiaca
Balantidium coli
Balantidium suis
Balanus balanoides

Literary usage of Balaeniceps rex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"... to give effect to an outbreak of anger, for by means of them the women can snap like an owl or a stork, or almost as well as the Balaeniceps rex. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"WS Parker, in 1861, on the osteology of the Balaeniceps rex, queries if the lower articular portion of the tibia is not the homologue of the mammalian ..."

3. Catalogue of Books by Perth (W.A.). Public Library (1905)
"Parker, WK On the osteology of the balaeniceps rex. 8128, |ц Balance of military power in Europe. ..."

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