hornbilln.
/ˈhɔːnbɪl/, U.S. /ˈhɔrnˌbɪl/ A bird of the family Bucerotidæ, so called from the horn-like excrescence surmounting the bill.Formerly called horned crow, horned pie n.
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1773 T. Pennant Genera of Birds p. xxix. and 8.
1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 341.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 255 The Hornbill Tribe..have all singularly-disproportioned beaks.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 167 The enormous beak of the hornbill..forms one enormous air-cell.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 435 The Hornbills, of which more than 60 species have been described, form a very natural and in some respects an isolated group.
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hornbill cuckoo n. the keel-billed cuckoo, Crotophaga, of North America.
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