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Definition of Jabiru mycteria
1. Noun. Large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jabiru Mycteria
Literary usage of Jabiru 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)
"jabiru mycteria (LICHTENSTEIN). Jabiru. [189.] Ciconia mycteria LICHTENSTEIN, Abh.
K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.), for 1816-17, 1819, 163. (Brazil. ..."
2. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of by University of California (1868-1952) (1910)
"The length corresponds perfectly with the recorded measurements of the same
segment in jabiru mycteria as described in Coues' Key. GRUIDAE, CRANES. ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"... and the eggs are generally two; the young are fed with fish; the flesh of the
young is tender and tolerably Jabiru (Mycteria Senegalensis). good eating. ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"C. Lumholtz, ' Among Cannibals,' P- 323 : "The splendid Australian jabiru (Mycteria
Australis), and I had the good fortune to shoot on the wing a specimen ..."
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