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  • noun Plural form of stork.

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Examples

  • Apparently the specimen described by Kellner & Langston (1996) is squashed flat, however, which makes it impossible to confirm whether the snout had the subrounded cross-sectional shape seen in storks.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The villagers, most of them farmers, considered the banyan tree sacred and believed that the storks were their guardian angels.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • The villagers, most of them farmers, considered the banyan tree sacred and believed that the storks were their guardian angels.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • Then the beasts are seen, and he carries in a pair of leopards, or perhaps pumas; and then his whole family stand by while two eagles are inserted, and other big birds, such as storks and pelicans, await their turn.

    A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

  • A student at the Technion observed the behavior of flocks of wild animals such as storks, wasps, and ants created a computer model of their behavior.

    unknown title 2009

  • A student at the Technion observed the behavior of flocks of wild animals such as storks, wasps, and ants created a computer model of their behavior.

    unknown title 2009

  • These parent storks, however, will not be on the nest for great periods of time.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Although many Europeans encourage storks to nest on the roof of their home - it is supposed to increase the fecundity of the householders - many would gasp at the inherent danger that lies in building one's home on top of a deadly current of electricity.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • These days construction cranes are almost as ubiquitous as storks' nests in the Polish countryside.

    Euro 2012 football stadiums provide grounds for Polish optimism 2011

  • In richly colored paintings Ms. Judge shows readers ages 5-12 some of what they found: nautiluses and octopuses, lizards and kiwis, "okapis from the Congo, capybaras from Colombia, and marabou storks."

    When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

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