wood ibis

wood ibis

n.

See wood stork.

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wood ibis

n

(Animals) any of several storks having a downward-curved bill, esp Mycteria americana of America and Ibis ibis of Africa. Also called: flinthead

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wood′ stork`

n.

a large white stork, Mycteria americana, inhabiting warmer parts of the New World, with a naked head and neck and black flight feathers.

[1880–85]

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Thesaurus

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

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