Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large stork (Jabiru mycteria) of South and Central America and Mexico, having white plumage with a pink band at the neck and a naked head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large stork-like bird, Mycteria americana.
- noun This name has also been applied to two large, stork-like birds of the Old World, somewhat smaller than the South American jabiru and having the head and neck feathered instead of bare. The African jabiru, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, is glossy black above, white below; the primaries are also white. The Australian jabiru, Xenorhynchus australis, is of a greenish black above.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
species ofbird Jabiru mycteria in themonotypic genus Jabiru , of thestork familyCiconiidae ,endemic to theAmericas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large mostly white Australian stork
- noun large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America
- noun large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is an Australian bird that is also sometimes known as the jabiru, but it is taxonomically distinct: Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.
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There is an Australian bird that is also sometimes known as the jabiru, but it is taxonomically distinct: Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.
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There is yet another stork known as the jabiru, this one in sub-Saharan Africa.
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There is yet another stork known as the jabiru, this one in sub-Saharan Africa.
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They stalk the animals by using the stratagem of a cap made of the skin of a leche’s or poku’s head, having the horns still attached, and another made so as to represent the upper white part of the crane called jabiru (‘Mycteru Senegalensis’), with its long neck and beak above.
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Jabirú, Jabiru mycteria formerly, Mycteria americana and Ephippiorhynchus mycteria; protonym, Ciconia mycteria, also known as the American jabiru and the jabiru stork, photographed at Belém, Brasil.
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The African jabiru is more commonly known as the saddle-billed stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis.
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It would seem that these imitation jabiru storks were named after the original South American species after being mistaken for it.
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This is the original jabiru, whilst the other species are imitations, having the same head and neck colouration, which is the reason they were given the same name.
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It is also known as the black-necked stork or jabiru stork.
bilby commented on the word jabiru
Known officially as the black-necked stork. These things are big. I was riding my bike one day when a jabiru stepped out of the mangroves and it scared the bejeesus out of me. Apart from the legs they are solid, have a sharp beak and take a while to get off the ground.
There's also a town in the Northern Territory with this name.
November 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word jabiru
There's a white Jabiru native to the Americas that is the only member of the Jabiru genus. Yours is "officially" the Asian Black-necked Stork, as you say. It's in the same genus (Ephippiorhynchus) as the Saddle-billed Stork of sub-Saharan Africa.
December 5, 2007