mycteria americana

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mycteria americana - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jabiru \Jab"i*ru\, n. [Braz. jabir['u], jabur['u].] (Zool.)
     One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria
     and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The American jabiru (Mycteria Americana) is white,
           with the head and neck black and nearly bare of
           feathers. The East Indian and Australian (Xenorhynchus Australis
           ) has the neck, head, and back covered with
           glossy, dark green feathers, changing on the head to
           purple. The African jabiru (Mycteria Senegalensis or
           Ephippiorhynchus, Senegalensis) has the neck, head,
           wing coverts, and tail, black, and is called also
           saddle-billed stork.
           [1913 Webster]

  Mycteria \Mycteria\ prop. n.
     A genus of birds including certain of the wood ibises,
     including the endangered Mycteria americana; it is
     sometimes assigned to a subfamily Mycteriinae.
  
     Syn: genus Mycteria.
          [WordNet 1.5]

mycteria americana - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Mycteria americana
      n 1: an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having
           a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World
           tropics [syn: wood ibis, wood stork, flinthead,
           Mycteria americana]