FLINTHEAD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics

Synonyms:

flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flinthead" is a kind of...):

stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)

Holonyms ("flinthead" is a member of...):

genus Mycteria; Mycteria (a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis)

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