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Definition of Balaeniceps rex
1. Noun. Large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe.
Generic synonyms: Wader, Wading Bird
Group relationships: Balaeniceps, Genus Balaeniceps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balaeniceps Rex
Literary usage of Balaeniceps rex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"... to give effect to an outbreak of anger, for by means of them the women can
snap like an owl or a stork, or almost as well as the balaeniceps rex. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"WS Parker, in 1861, on the osteology of the balaeniceps rex, queries if the lower
articular portion of the tibia is not the homologue of the mammalian ..."
3. Catalogue of Books by Perth (W.A.). Public Library (1905)
"Parker, WK On the osteology of the balaeniceps rex. 8128, |ц Balance of military
power in Europe. ..."
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