HyperDic: flinthead

English > 1 sense of the word flinthead:
NOUNanimalflinthead, wood ibis, wood stork, Mycteria americanaan American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill
English > flinthead: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAn American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics.
Synonymswood ibis, wood stork, Mycteria americana
Member ofMycteria, genus MycteriaA genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis
Broaderstorklarge mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
Catalantàntal americà

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