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Definition of Mycteria
1. Noun. A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Ciconiidae, Family Ciconiidae
Member holonyms: Flinthead, Mycteria Americana, Wood Ibis, Wood Stork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycteria
Literary usage of Mycteria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"Type, by monotypy, Mycteria americana LINN.EUS. Mycteria ... Ciconia mycteria
LICHTENSTEIN, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.), for 1816-17, 1819, 163. ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"195 : " In October, 1858, I succeeded in purchasing a fine living specimen of
the New Holland Jabiru, or Gigantic Crane of the colonists (Mycteria ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Bill inclined upward and sharp at tip Mycteria, p.. GENUS TANTALUS. 188. ...
Mycteria americana Linn. JABIRU. Size of a large crane ; legs long, ..."
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