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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.
Definition 2024
Jabiru
Jabiru
Translingual
Jabiru
Proper noun
Jabiru f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ciconiidae – the jabiru.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Ciconiiformes - order; Ciconii - suborder; Ciconiida - parvorder; Ciconioidea - superfamily; Ciconiidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Jabiru mycteria
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276
jabiru
jabiru
English
Jabiru
Noun
jabiru (plural jabirus)
- A species of bird Jabiru mycteria in the monotypic genus Jabiru, of the stork family Ciconiidae, endemic to the Americas.
Translations
Jabiru mycteria
References
- ↑ A. B. H. Ferreira, Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, second edition (Rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira, 1986), page 977
- ↑ Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary (ISBN 0312280874, 2001), page 768
- ↑ Webster's II New College Dictionary (2005)