whalehead
whalehead noun: synonym of shoebill (wading bird).
Noun
whalehead (plural whaleheads)
- Synonym of shoebill (wading bird)
- The shoebill, whalehead or boatbill, as it is sometimes called, is one of Africa's strangest and rarest endemics.1999, Christ Stuart, Birds of Africa: From Seabirds to Seed-eaters, page 40
- Synonyms:
- shoebill
- A type of sand dune in North Carolina.
- The strong north winds pile the sands up into great barchannes or medanoes, crescentic sand dunes known locally as whaleheads, which are moving steadily southward.1912, William Bullock Clark, The Coastal Plain of North Carolina, page 32
- Huge dunes, called “whaleheads” by locals, developed on Hatteras during this time and swept across the island.2013, Renee Wright, Explorer's Guide North Carolina's Outer Banks & Crystal Coast
whalehead meaning in Tamil
whalehead in Tamil
- நாரையினப் பறவை வகை
Synonyms of whalehead
Forms of whalehead
| plural | whaleheads |
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Questions about whalehead
- What does whalehead mean?
- Whalehead means synonym of shoebill (wading bird).
- What is whalehead in Tamil?
- Whalehead in Tamil is நாரையினப் பறவை வகை. See Whalehead meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is whalehead?
- Whalehead is a noun.
- What is the plural of whalehead?
- The plural of whalehead is whaleheads.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: whalehead (page history and authors); whalehead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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