MYCTERIA AMERICANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mycteria americana mean? 

• MYCTERIA AMERICANA (noun)
  The noun MYCTERIA AMERICANA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MYCTERIA AMERICANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYCTERIA AMERICANA (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork

Hypernyms ("Mycteria americana" is a kind of...):

stork (large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage)

Holonyms ("Mycteria americana" is a member of...):

genus Mycteria; Mycteria (a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis)