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Marabou vs Stork - What's the difference?

marabou | stork |

As nouns the difference between marabou and stork

is that marabou is leptoptilos crumeniferus , a large wading bird native to africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging while stork is a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family ciconiidae.

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

    stork

    English

    (Ciconiidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  • The mythical bringer of babies to familes.

    • Derived terms

    * (black-necked stork) * (giant stork) * (hair-crested stork) * saddle-billed stork * storky

    See also

    * crane * egret * heron

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