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blue crane

noun

  1. the great blue heron.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blue crane1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences

Once a berth becomes available, longshoremen operating massive blue cranes lift the metal containers and position them to head inland via truck or train.

Proceeds benefit blue crane conservation efforts of the International Crane Foundation and the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

GREAT VALUEThis delightful red wine is bright in flavor and light in body, almost airborne like the blue crane — South Africa’s endangered national bird — it is named for.

Another has a blue crane, belonging to the order Grus cinerea, standing erect on its stilts, showing fight.

It is described as resembling a blue crane, and may possibly have been the Floridus cerulea, or little blue heron.

We ate some lunch, and I took out my gun and went for a stroll; I shot a large blue crane, and saw some ducks.

Among the game-birds may be included the blue crane, which flies in bands of from ten to twenty, high in the air.

He wore a headdress of monkey skins, above which waved a tuft of plumes from the tail of the blue crane.

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