Ibis

name, noun

name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.

    "It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids."

  2. 2
    plural of IBI form-of, plural
  3. 3
    wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of in-body image stabilization, in which stabilization mechanisms are built into the camera (phone) body rather than the lens. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

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magpie

Example

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"The ibis is a protected species in Algeria."

Etymology

Mentioned in the Wycliffe Bible as ybyn or ibin, as ibys from 16th century and ibis shortly after. From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian h-b-G26 (hbj) (compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).

Related phrases

African sacred ibisAustralian white ibisJapanese crested ibisMadagascar ibisPuna ibisReunion ibisbald ibisbare-faced ibisblack ibisblack-faced ibiscrested ibisgiant ibis

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