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Noun: wood ibis  wûd I-bis
  1. Any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
    - wood stork, Ibis ibis
     
  2. An American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
    - wood stork, flinthead, Mycteria americana

Derived forms: wood ibises

Type of: ibis, stork

Part of: genus Ibis, genus Mycteria, Mycteria

Encyclopedia: Wood ibis