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Webster 1913 Edition
Jabiru
Jab′i-ru
,Noun.
[Braz.
jabirú
, jaburú
.] (Zool.)
One of several large wading birds of the genera
Mycteria
and Xenorhynchus
, allied to the storks in form and habits. ☞ The American jabiru (
Mycteria Americana
) is white, with the head and neck black and nearly bare of feathers. The East Indian and Australian (Xenorhynchus Australis
) has the neck, head, and back covered with glossy, dark green feathers, changing on the head to purple. The African jabiru (Mycteria Senegalensis
or Ephippiorhynchus, Senegalensis
) has the neck, head, wing coverts, and tail, black, and is called also saddle-billed stork
. Webster 1828 Edition
Jabiru
JAB'IRU
,Noun.
The Jabiru is the Mycteria Americana. It resembles the stork.