little blue heron

little blue heron
noun
small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere
Syn: ↑Egretta caerulea
Hypernyms: ↑heron
Member Holonyms: ↑Egretta, ↑genus Egretta

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noun
: a small American heron (Florida caerulea)

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a small heron, Egretta caerulea, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, having bluish-gray plumage.

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little blue heron,
a dark blue, medium-sized heron of the southeastern United States that is snowy white in its immature stage.

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