wood stork

wood stork

n. A large, predominantly white wading bird (Mycteria americana), having a bald black head and inhabiting tropical and subtropical wetlands of North, Central, and South America. Also called flinthead, wood ibis.

wood′ stork`

n. a large white stork, Mycteria americana, inhabiting warmer parts of the New World, with a naked head and neck and black flight feathers. [1880–85]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wood stork - any of several Old World birds of the genus IbisIbis ibis, wood ibisibis - wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved billsgenus Ibis - ibises
	2.	wood stork - an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropicsflinthead, Mycteria americana, wood ibisstork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumagegenus Mycteria, Mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis