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    FLINTHEAD

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     I. (noun) 

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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 tropicsplay

    Synonyms:

    flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("flinthead" is a kind of...):

    stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)

    Holonyms ("flinthead" is a member of...):

    genus Mycteria; Mycteria (a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis)

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