Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various storklike wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae of temperate and tropical regions, having a long, slender, downward-curving bill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the family Ibididæ, or of the genus Ibis in a wide sense.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] The leading genus of the family Ibididæ, formerly more than coextensive with the family, but successively restricted to various generic types of ibises.
- noun Some bird like an ibis, or supposed to be an ibis, as a wood-ibis or wood-stork. See
Tantalinæ . - noun In angling, an artificial hackle-fly, ribbed with silver tinsel, with body, hackle, wings, and tail scarlet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family
Ibidæ , inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various long-legged
wading birds in the familyThreskiornithidae . They have longdowncurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such ascrustaceans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ibis is a bird that was found so useful in destroying locusts and serpents in Egypt, that in olden times it was made a capital crime for any one to destroy it.
Mamma's Stories about Birds Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley 1858
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The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
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The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
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The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Trebloc2462 2009
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The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
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The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
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The LXX. and Vulgate render this word by "ibis", i.e., the
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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These birds formed the topic of our after-supper conversation, and then it generalised to the different species of wading birds of America, and at length that singular creature, the "ibis," became the theme.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and other ePub-compatible devices, as well as reader software such as ibis and Bookworm.
Applelinks.com Staff 2010
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Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and other ePub-compatible devices, as well as reader software such as ibis and Bookworm.
Applelinks.com Staff 2010
supbob91 commented on the word ibis
located in Merriam Webtster's Notebook Dictionary pg 39.
From Robert Mcfarland
September 25, 2010