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jabiru
[ jab-uh-roo, jab-uh-roo ]
noun
- a large stork, Jabiru mycteria, of the warmer regions of the New World.
jabiru
/ ˈdʒæbɪˌruː /
noun
- a large white tropical American stork, Jabiru mycteria , with a dark naked head and a dark bill
- Also calledblack-necked storkpoliceman bird a large Australian stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus , having a white plumage, dark green back and tail, and red legs
- another name for saddlebill
- not in ornithological usage another name for wood ibis
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jabiru1
1640–50; < Portuguese < Tupi jabirú
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jabiru1
C18: via Portuguese from Tupi-Guarani
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Example Sentences
The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through which you have just passed.
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A jabiru stork stood on one leg, beak on breast, meditating, caring nothing for all that was outside its ruminating mind.
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Turkish root, jabiru, all were curiously better than the stuffy domestics he had come to know.
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A row of chocolate babies stood outside that nest, with four jabiru storks among them.
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The jabiru was about forty feet above the water and had a clear view of the stream.
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