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Definition of Stork
1. Noun. Large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage.
Group relationships: Ciconiidae, Family Ciconiidae
Specialized synonyms: Ciconia Ciconia, White Stork, Black Stork, Ciconia Nigra, Adjutant, Adjutant Bird, Adjutant Stork, Leptoptilus Dubius, Leptoptilus Crumeniferus, Marabou, Marabou Stork, Marabout, Openbill, Jabiru, Jabiru Mycteria, Ephippiorhynchus Senegalensis, Jabiru, Saddlebill, Black-necked Stork, Jabiru, Policeman Bird, Xenorhyncus Asiaticus, Flinthead, Mycteria Americana, Wood Ibis, Wood Stork
Definition of Stork
1. n. Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidæ, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Definition of Stork
1. Noun. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stork
1. a wading bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stork
Literary usage of Stork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
"WELCOME, O stork ! that dost wing Thy flight from the far-away ! ... To thee, O
stork, I complain, O stork, to thee I impart The thousand sorrows, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"DECORATIONS BY JOHN C. TERRY THE miracle of life was in the house, that age-old
mystery of childish minds, the stork, and Jonathan and David were amazed. ..."
3. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the by William Scott (1829)
"The stork thrust in her long bill and helped herself very plentifully ; then,
... Nay, nay, said the stork, don't pretend to be out of humour about the ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The LXX. do not seem to have recognised the stork under the Hebrew term ...
It U singular that a bird so conspicuous and familiar as the stork must have ..."
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