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wood stork
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wood stork
n.
See wood ibis.
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Noun1.wood stork - any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibiswood stork - 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 stork - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved billwood stork - 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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