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# heron

«heron» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tall bird with long legs, a long neck and a long sharp…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a heron, herons)

### meaning for a pupil

A tall bird with long legs, a long neck and a long sharp beak, which stands still in shallow water to catch fish and frogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons: herons are wading birds; they hunt by waiting very still and then striking fast. Found in rivers, lakes and marshes in many countries; the grey heron and the great blue heron are common. Phrases: «a grey heron», «a great blue heron».

### examples

- A heron stood very still in the shallow water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x1)
- The heron caught a fish with its long beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x2)
- We saw a grey heron by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x3)
- Herons fly with their necks pulled back in an S shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x4)
- A heron ate all the fish from our garden pond! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x5)
- The great blue heron is common in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x6)
- ‘What do you do yourself?’ asked the heron. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/#x7)

### note

Countable: a heron, herons. Pronounced HER-un. Herons are often confused with storks and cranes, which look similar.

### In the corpora

- [Herons, mudskippers and other animals with backbones each have just one heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/12/)
- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.273/)
- [and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.419/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heron» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heron/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.