English > Ciconiidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | storks. |
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Synonym | family Ciconiidae |
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Member of | Ciconiiformes, order Ciconiiformes | Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet |
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Members | Anastomus, genus Anastomus | openbills |
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Ciconia, genus Ciconia | type genus of the Ciconiidae |
Ephippiorhynchus, genus Ephippiorhynchus | saddlebills |
Leptoptilus, genus Leptoptilus | adjutant birds and marabous |
Mycteria, genus Mycteria | A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis |
Xenorhyncus, genus Xenorhyncus | East Indian and Australian storks |
genus Jabiru | jabirus |
stork | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
Broader | bird family | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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Spanish | cicónidos, Ciconiidae, familia Ciconiidae |
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Catalan | cicònids |
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