ayaya

English

Noun

ayaya

  1. (historical) The roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja
    • 1625, William Stansby, Purchas His Pilgrimes‎[1], volume 4, page 1317:
      "The Ayaya are as bigge as a Pye-annet, more white than red, they haue a faire color of white beſpotted with red, the bill is long and like a Spoone."
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