blue heron
/ˈbluː ˌhɛrən/ /ˈbluː ˌhɛr(ə)n/noun
1 North American. Either of two North American herons, the large Ardea herodias (also more fully great blue heron) and the small Egretta caerulea (also more fully little blue heron).
2 NZ. The darker, slate-grey form of the eastern reef heron, Egretta sacra; = matuku.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in an earlier sense). From blue + heron.
- long-range
- Long Reed
- long reins
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- long service leave
- long-serving
- Longshan
- longship
- longshore
- longshore drift
- longshoreman
- long shot
- long sight
- long-sighted
- long-sightedly
- long-sightedness
- long-sleeved
- long-sleever
- longspur
- long-standing
- long-stay
- Long, Stephen Harriman
- longstop
- Longstreet, James