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Definition of Roseate spoonbill
1. Noun. Tropical rose-colored New World spoonbill.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roseate Spoonbill
Literary usage of Roseate spoonbill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"roseate spoonbill. PLATALEA AJAJA, Linn. PLATE CCCLXII.—ADULT MALI. ... The Roseate
Spoonbill is found for the most part along the marshy and muddy borders ..."
2. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"The roseate spoonbill is found in both Americas and ranges south to the Straits
of Magellan, but in Patagonia it is, I think, rare, for on the Rio Negro I ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"Among those which inhabit the former, the Scarlet Ibis (Tantalus Ruber) and
roseate spoonbill (Platalea Ajaja) may be specified as the most brilliant and ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1847)
"Among those which inhabit the former, the Scarlet Ibis (Tantalus Ruber) and
roseate spoonbill (Platalea Ajaja) may be specified as the most brilliant and ..."
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