Mycteria

prop. n.

1.

A genus of birds including certain of the wood ibises, including the endangered Mycteria americana; it is sometimes assigned to a subfamily Mycteriinae.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis genus Mycteria bird genus - a genus of birds Ciconiidae, family Ciconiidae - storks flinthead, Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics