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MYCTERIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis

Synonyms:

genus Mycteria; Mycteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Mycteria"):

flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork (an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics)

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

Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)

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