noun
- Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) Any
bird of the genus Ibis and
several allied genera, of the family
Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous
species are known. They are large, wading
birds, having a
long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary