hornbill

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil). The artist painted the tail excessively long.

The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), one of the largest hornbills

Etymology

horn +‎ bill

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːn.bɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːɹn.bɪl/

Noun

hornbill (plural hornbills)

1. Any of various birds of the family Bucerotidae, with bills resembling a cow's horns. Many species have a casque above the bill, and many imprison their young in a tree.
   • 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 408:

     I saw what they were, hornbills, white head with a black streak of feather on top, a long grey tail, and a huge red beak that curved down, bigger than his head.

Derived terms

• Blyth's hornbill
• Papuan hornbill
• wrinkled hornbill

 

Translations

bird

• Afrikaans: boskraai
• Assamese: পাকৈঢোঁৰা (pakoidhü̃ra), ধনেশ (dhonex)
• Brunei Malay: likap
• Bulgarian: пти́ца-носоро́г f (ptíca-nosoróg)
• Catalan: calau (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 犀鳥／犀鸟 (zh) (xīniǎo)

• Danish: næsehornsfugl c
• Esperanto: bucero
• Finnish: sarvinokka
• French: calao (fr) m
• German: Nashornvogel m
• Italian: bucero (it)
• Japanese: サイチョウ (saichou)
• Korean: 코뿔새 (koppulsae)
• Malay: enggang
• Navajo: tsídii bichʼahtsohí
• Pali: āṭa m, dabbimukha m
• Pela: və̆³¹kjɔ̃⁵⁵
• Polish: dzioborożec (pl) m
• Portuguese: calau m
• Romanian: calao (ro) m
• Russian: пти́ца-носоро́г (ru) f (ptíca-nosoróg)
• Spanish: cálao m
• Tagalog: kalaw
• Thai: นกเงือก (th) (nók ngʉ̂ʉak)
• Vietnamese: hồng hoàng (vi)

See also

• ground hornbill
• toucan