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    GENUS MYCTERIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibisplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Mycteria; Mycteria

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("genus Mycteria" is a kind of...):

    bird genus (a genus of birds)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Mycteria"):

    flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork (an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics)

    Holonyms ("genus Mycteria" is a member of...):

    Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)

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