WOOD IBIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood ibis mean? 

• WOOD IBIS (noun)
  The noun WOOD IBIS has 2 senses:

1. any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis

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

  Familiarity information: WOOD IBIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOD IBIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ibis ibis; wood ibis; wood stork

Hypernyms ("wood ibis" is a kind of...):

ibis (wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills)

Holonyms ("wood ibis" is a member of...):

genus Ibis (ibises)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork

Hypernyms ("wood ibis" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("wood ibis" is a member of...):

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