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wood ibis

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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.

wood ibis
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of several storks having a downward-curved bill, esp Mycteria americana of America and Ibis ibis of Africa
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Noun1.wood ibis - any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibiswood ibis - any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
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 billwood ibis - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
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


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