stork : Idioms & Phrases

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adjutant stork

  • noun large Indian stork with a military gait
    Leptoptilus dubius; adjutant bird; adjutant.
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black stork

  • noun Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below
    Ciconia nigra.
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Black-necked stork

  • noun large mostly white Australian stork
    jabiru; policeman bird; Xenorhyncus asiaticus.
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  • the East Indian jabiru.
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Giant stork

  • the adjutant.
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Hair-crested stork

  • the smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica).
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Marabou stork

  • noun large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
    Leptoptilus crumeniferus; marabou; marabout.
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  • . See Marabou. Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See Jabiru.
Webster 1913

Stork's bill

  • (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See Pelargonium.
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stork-billed

Stork"-billed` adjective
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  1. Having a bill like that of the stork.
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White stork

  • noun the common stork of Europe; white with black wing feathers and a red bill
    Ciconia ciconia.
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  • (Zoöl.), the common European stork.
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wood stork

  • noun any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
    Ibis ibis; wood ibis.
  • noun an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
    Mycteria americana; flinthead; wood ibis.
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