| NOUN | animal | wood stork, wood ibis, Ibis ibis | any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis |
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| animal | wood stork, wood ibis, flinthead, Mycteria americana | an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill |
| Meaning | Any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis. | |
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| Synonyms | wood ibis, Ibis ibis | |
| Member of | genus Ibis | ibises |
| Broader | ibis | wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills |
| Spanish | Ibis ibis, tántalo | |
| 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, flinthead, Mycteria americana | |
| 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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