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wood ibis

n.

Any of several large, mainly white wading birds of the subfamily Mycteriinae, related to and resembling the storks, especially the New World species Mycteria americana, which inhabits wooded areas of tropical and subtropical America. Also called flinthead, wood stork.

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Noun	1.	wood ibis - any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis Ibis ibis, wood stork ibis - wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills genus Ibis - ibises
	2.	wood ibis - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics flinthead, Mycteria americana, wood stork stork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage genus Mycteria, Mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis