wood ibis

wood ibis

n. See wood stork.

wood ibis

n (Animals) any of several storks having a downward-curved bill, esp Mycteria americana of America and Ibis ibis of Africa. Also called: flinthead

wood′ stork`

n. a large white stork, Mycteria americana, inhabiting warmer parts of the New World, with a naked head and neck and black flight feathers. [1880–85]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.wood ibis - any of several Old World birds of the genus IbisIbis ibis, wood storkibis - wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved billsgenus Ibis - ibises

2.wood ibis - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropicsflinthead, Mycteria americana, wood storkstork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumagegenus Mycteria, Mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis