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IBIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ibis" is a kind of...):
wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ibis"):
Ibis ibis; wood ibis; wood stork (any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis)
sacred ibis; Threskiornis aethiopica (African ibis venerated by ancient Egyptians)
Holonyms ("ibis" is a member of...):
family Ibidiidae; family Threskiornithidae; Threskiornithidae (ibises)