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IBIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ibis"):

Ibis ibis; wood ibis; wood stork (any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis)

sacred ibis; Threskiornis aethiopica (African ibis venerated by ancient Egyptians)

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

family Ibidiidae; family Threskiornithidae; Threskiornithidae (ibises)

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