Usually means: Bird with distinctive spatula-shaped bill.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. spoonbill: Merriam-Webster
  2. spoonbill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spoonbill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spoonbill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spoonbill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spoonbill, spoonbill: Wordnik
  7. spoonbill: Wiktionary
  8. spoonbill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spoonbill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spoonbill: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spoonbill: Dictionary.com
  12. Spoonbill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Spoonbill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. spoonbill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. spoonbill: Rhymezone
  16. Spoonbill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. spoonbill: FreeDictionary.org
  18. spoonbill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. spoonbill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spoonbill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spoonbill (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spoonbill: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spoonbills as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spoonbill)

noun:  Any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
noun:  (US) A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri river basin, or extinct close relatives.

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