Machaerirhynchus

Translingual Etymology mul la-new -, from mul grc μάχαιρα dagger + grc ῥύγχος bill, mul John Gould 1850 British ornithologist naturalist 1.en 1850 December John Gould On new Australian Birds in the Collection of the Zoological Society of London Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London London 1850, part XVIII 277 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859035 Bill rather shorter than the head, very much depressed and widely dilated, causing it to assume a lancet-like form; . Proper noun 1 m genus family Machaerirhynchidae the boatbills Hyponyms genus Machaerirhynchus nigripectus species (black-breasted boatbill), Machaerirhynchus flaviventer species (yellow-breasted boatbill) – species References mul Birds