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# spoonbill

«spoonbill» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wading bird with a long, flat bill shaped like a spoon** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (spoonbills)

### meaning for a pupil

A spoonbill is a wading bird with a long, flat bill shaped like a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoonbill/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a bird that can turn into a fair maiden, then back into a bird

### examples

- Twelve spoonbills came flying and struck the moist earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoonbill/#x1)
- She turned into a spoonbill and flew away after her companions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoonbill/#x2)

### note

a count of birds: each spoonbill counts as one bird

### Trees and pragmatics

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