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STORK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stork" 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 "stork"):
Ciconia ciconia; white stork (the common stork of Europe; white with black wing feathers and a red bill)
black stork; Ciconia nigra (Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below)
adjutant; adjutant bird; adjutant stork; Leptoptilus dubius (large Indian stork with a military gait)
Leptoptilus crumeniferus; marabou; marabou stork; marabout (large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments)
openbill (stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip)
jabiru; Jabiru mycteria (large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America)
Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis; jabiru; saddlebill (large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle)
black-necked stork; jabiru; policeman bird; Xenorhyncus asiaticus (large mostly white Australian stork)
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 ("stork" is a member of...):
Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)
Context examples:
As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
