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    WOOD IBIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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 ("wood ibis" is a kind of...):

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

    Holonyms ("wood ibis" is a member of...):

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

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibisplay

    Synonyms:

    Ibis ibis; wood ibis; wood stork

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("wood ibis" is a kind of...):

    ibis (wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills)

    Holonyms ("wood ibis" is a member of...):

    genus Ibis (ibises)

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