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Stork

Stork Meaning & Definition
Stork Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Stork?

[n] large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage

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See Also | adjutant | adjutant bird | adjutant stork | black stork | black-necked stork | Ciconia ciconia | Ciconia nigra | Ciconiidae | Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis | family Ciconiidae | jabiru | Jabiru mycteria | Leptoptilus crumeniferus | Leptoptilus dubius | marabou | marabou stork | marabout | Mycteria americana | openbill | policeman bird | saddlebill | wader | wading bird | white stork | wood ibis | wood stork | Xenorhyncus asiaticus

Stork In Webster's Dictionary

\Stork\, n. [AS. storc; akin to G. storch, OHG. storah, Icel. storkr, Dan. & Sw. stork, and perhaps to Gr. ? a vulture.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family {Ciconid[ae]}, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to {Ciconia} and several allied genera. The European white stork ({Ciconia alba}) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork ({C. nigra}) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. {Black-necked stork}, the East Indian jabiru. {Hair-crested stork}, the smaller adjutant of India ({Leptoptilos Javanica}). {Giant stork}, the adjutant. {Marabou stork}. See {Marabou}. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See {Jabiru}. {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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