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
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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
Like most of the birds whose necks are bald, the jabiru is a useful scavenger, and so is tolerated in the haunts of men.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Harry Bates
The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through which you have just passed.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
One day we found the nest of a jabiru in a mighty fig-tree, on the edge of a patch of jungle.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
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 Harry Bates
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