heron








noun

  1. any of numerous long-legged, long-necked, usually long-billed birds of the family Ardeidae, including the true herons, egrets, night herons, and bitterns.

noun

  1. Hero(def 2).

noun

  1. any of various wading birds of the genera Butorides, Ardea, etc, having a long neck, slim body, and a plumage that is commonly grey or white: family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes

noun

  1. same as Hero
  2. Patrick. 1920–99, British abstract painter and art critic
n.

c.1300, from Old French hairon (12c.), earlier hairo (11c., Modern French héron), from Frankish *haigiro or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hraigran- (cf. Old High German heigaro “heron,” German Reiher, Dutch reiger, Old Norse hegri), from PIE *qriq-, perhaps imitative of its cry (cf. Old Church Slavonic kriku “cry, scream,” Lithuanian kryksti “to shriek”). Old English cognate hraga did not survive into Middle English.

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