sacred ibis

American  

noun

1. an African ibis, Threskiornis aethiopica, having a black, naked head and neck and white and black plumage, venerated by the ancient Egyptians.

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Etymology

Origin of sacred ibis

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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sacred ibis

The native companion, the emu, and the sacred ibis are on this creek.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart

Then there are ibis, the sacred ibis of Egypt, truly at home in this splendid sunshine and silent landscape.

From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet

If the chivalric lion be red and rampant, it is rigidly red and rampant; if the sacred ibis stands anywhere on one leg, it stands on one leg for ever.

From Aesop's Fables; a new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones

"Because I've just seen a sacred ibis walkin' arm in arm with a British cock- pheasant."

From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

There was likewise the sacred ibis of Egypt, and one of the Stymphalides which Hercules shot in his sixth labor.

From A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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