Dictionary
night' her"on
any of several thick-billed, crepuscular or nocturnal herons of the genus
Nycticorax and related genera, as
N. nycticorax (black-crowned night heron), of the Old and New Worlds, and
Nyctanassa violacea (yellow-crowned night heron), of America.
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