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Definition of Shoebills
1. shoebill [n] - See also: shoebill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoebills
Literary usage of Shoebills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"The Arabs call them the "Father of the Shoe," and Europeans call them shoebills
as well as ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... shoebills, hammerheads, storks, ibises, spoonbills, and flamingos. Most of
these birds have long legs, long, slender necks. elongated bills, ..."
3. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"The Arabs call them the " Father of the Shoe," and Europeans call them shoebills
as well as ..."
4. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"A list of more than 320 bird species includes rare silvery shoebills or whale-headed
storks, ostriches, fish-eating eagles, colorful bee-eaters and rollers, ..."