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• stork — [OE] The stork may get its name from its rather stiff legged gait. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sturkaz, which also produced German storch and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish stork. This may have been formed from the base *sturk ,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• stork — [OE] The stork may get its name from its rather stiff legged gait. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sturkaz, which also produced German storch and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish stork. This may have been formed from the base *sturk ,… …   Word origins

• adjutant stork — noun large Indian stork with a military gait • Syn: ↑adjutant bird, ↑adjutant, ↑Leptoptilus dubius • Hypernyms: ↑stork • Member Holonyms: ↑Leptoptilus, ↑genus Leptoptilus …   Useful english dictionary

• adjutant stork — ad′jutant stork n. orn a large Asian stork, Leptoptilus dubius, with a naked pink neck and throat pouch, noted for its stiff, high stepping gait …   From formal English to slang

• adjutant stork — a large Indian stork, Leptoptilus dubius, having a pinkish brown neck and bill, a large naked pouch under the throat, and a military gait. Also called adjutant, adjutant bird. * * * …   Universalium

• adjutant bird — large Indian stork with a military gait, adjutant stork …   English contemporary dictionary

• adjutant bird — noun large Indian stork with a military gait • Syn: ↑adjutant, ↑adjutant stork, ↑Leptoptilus dubius • Hypernyms: ↑stork • Member Holonyms: ↑Leptoptilus, ↑genus Leptoptilus …   Useful english dictionary

• ciconiiform — ▪ bird Introduction    any member of the five or six families of storklike (stork) birds (bird): herons (heron) and bitterns (bittern) (Ardeidae), the shoebill (sole species of the Balaenicipitidae), the hammerhead (sole species of the Scopidae) …   Universalium

• List of the animals in the Bible — See main article Animals in the Bible. The following is a list of animals whose name appears in the Bible. Whenever required for the identification, the Hebrew name will be indicated, as well as the specific term used by Zoologists. This list… …   Wikipedia

• Animals in the Bible — • The sacred books were composed by and for a people almost exclusively given to husbandry and pastoral life, hence in constant communication with nature Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Animals in the Bible     Anima …   Catholic encyclopedia

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium