ciconiidae
Noun
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Storks (synset 102004475)
is a type of: bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsmember holonym:
- stork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
- ciconia, genus ciconia - type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks
- genus leptoptilus, leptoptilus - adjutant birds and marabous
- anastomus, genus anastomus - openbills
- genus jabiru - jabirus
- ephippiorhynchus, genus ephippiorhynchus - saddlebills
- genus xenorhyncus, xenorhyncus - East Indian and Australian storks
- genus mycteria, mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis
belongs to: ciconiiformes, order ciconiiformes - order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibisessame as: family ciconiidae
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