Definition of Mycteria americana

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

Exact synonyms: Flinthead, Wood Ibis, Wood Stork
Generic synonyms: Stork
Group relationships: Genus Mycteria, Mycteria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycteria Americana

Mycoplasma granularum
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
Mycoplasma hyorhinis
Mycoplasma hyosynoviae
Mycoplasma laidlawii
Mycoplasma meleagridis
Mycoplasma neurolyticum
Mycoplasma orale
Mycoplasma pharyngis
Mycoplasma salivarium
Mycoplasma synoviae
Mycostatin
Mycroft Holmes
Mycrosporidia
Mycteria
Mycteria americana (current term)
Mycteroperca
Mycteroperca bonaci
Myctophidae
Myerscough
Myfanwy
Mykolaiv
Mykonos
Mylanta
Mylar
Myles
Myles Standish
Myliobatidae
Mylitta
Mylodontidae

Literary usage of Mycteria americana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"Mycteria americana LINN. SN ed. 10, I. 1758, 140. [B—, C 448 bis, R 499, C 654.] GEOG. DIST.— Tropical America, north casually to southern Texas. ..."

2. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"... Mycteria americana, Linn.), about four feet tall, with a bare jet-black head capping its purely white plume. It haunts the banks and sand-bars, ..."

3. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"... three species range throughout tropical America up to the Southern United States. 324. Mycteria americana, Linn. ... Mycteria americana, Baird, Brera., ..."

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