NOUN | animal | Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill |
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Meaning | An American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics. | |
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Synonyms | wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead | |
Member of | Mycteria, genus Mycteria | A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis |
Broader | stork | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
Catalan | tàntal americà |
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