jabiru
Americannoun
noun
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a large white tropical American stork, Jabiru mycteria , with a dark naked head and a dark bill
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Also called: black-necked stork. policeman bird. a large Australian stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus , having a white plumage, dark green back and tail, and red legs
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another name for saddlebill
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(not in ornithological usage) another name for wood ibis
Etymology
Origin of jabiru
1640–50; < Portuguese < Tupi jabirú
Example Sentences
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He reminds me of the park’s mascot, the jabiru, a lanky stork common along the Araguaia River.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015
A jabiru stork saw it from downstream, solemnly squatting on four eggs which eventually would perpetuate the race.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry
This was the jabiru, a species which is fast disappearing, the gigantic crane of the English colonies.
From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules
It beached, and the jabiru heard a sudden dense silence fall.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry
In many catalogues, the word "albatross" stands for the jabiru, a nearly-exterminated species of giant stork, inhabiting South America.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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