Definition of "ardea" [ardea]

• The typical genus of the family Ardeidæ, and formerly coextensive with it. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Australia, creative office, open office, show and tell ardea personal light - herman miller"
• "We saw many of the pretty white ardea, and other water-birds, flying over the spots not yet dried up; and occasionally wild ducks, but these only in numbers sufficient to remind us that we were approaching the Zambesi, where every water-fowl has a home."
• "It is merely a poetical method of accounting for the Latin name of that bird, which was very plentiful in the vicinity of the city of Ardea, and, perhaps, thence derived its name of ‘ardea.’"