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Marabou vs Maribou - What's the difference?

marabou | maribou |

As nouns the difference between marabou and maribou

is that marabou is leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging while maribou is .

marabou

English

(wikipedia marabou) (Leptoptilos crumeniferus)

Alternative forms

* marabu

Noun

(en noun)
  • Leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
  • (dated, US, Louisiana) A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
    • (Bartlett)

    Synonyms

    * (bird) adjutant stork, marabou stork

    maribou

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1896 , Parker Gillmore, Leaves from a Sportsman's Diary , page 256:
    • were feeding not only giraffes, but several herds of the larger antelopes, among whom stalked, with measured pace, a large number of secretary birds, Kaffir and white storks, maribous , the charming crested cranes, and innumerable egrets.
  • * 1987 , Helen Shaw, Fly-Tying (ISBN 0941130541), page 254
    • Tips of maribou feathers are used whole for the wings of streamer flies.
  • * 2011 , Ben West, Cameroon (ISBN 1841623539), page 231:
  • * Birdlife at the park is prolic – around 375 species in total – which include eagle, hornbill, black-crowned crane, maribous , pelican, duck, goose, ostrich, heron, stork and guineafowl.