spathe-billrare—1. [f. spathe n.] The spoon-billed sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmæus. 1840Cuvier's Anim.Kingd. 245 Near the Sandpipers should apparently be placed the Spathe-bill.., which is distinguished by a depressed bill, widened at the tip somewhat as in the Spoonbills.