noun
an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
• Syn: ↑wood ibis, ↑wood stork, ↑Mycteria americana
• Hypernyms: ↑stork
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mycteria, ↑genus Mycteria
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : wood ibis 1
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/flint"hed'/, n.
the wood stork, Mycteria americana.
[1790-1800, for an earlier sense; FLINT + HEAD]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.