Usage of "Leptoptilus crumeniferus"

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Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments.

Synonyms

Examples for "marabout"

He did not give the name of the marabout, or the school. 
 Reuters 

The marabout asked a blessing, then the king said to Reynard- 
 Who is mark twain? 

The marabout went into the next room, and got some French writing paper. 
 The Golden Silence 

Great marabout hangs out there-kindof Mussulman pope of the desert. 
 The Golden Silence 

This present marabout was his next of kin-orso everybody believes. 
 The Golden Silence 

You're looking rather weedy, standing on one leg like a marabou stork! 
 A harum-scarum schoolgirl 

Then I looked again, and it was a marabou stork. 
 Sketches of the East Africa Campaign 

It was all the same, in sneakers, or marabou. 
 Family album 

A little blue chiffon dress, its hem fringed with marabou feathers, was a Coast sell-out last summer. 
 The Irish Times 

Veronica has a sudden image of a dozen marabou storks feeding on Derek's headless corpse, and turns away. 
 Night of knives 

You're looking rather weedy, standing on one leg like a marabou stork! 
 A harum-scarum schoolgirl 

Then I looked again, and it was a marabou stork. 
 Sketches of the East Africa Campaign 

In the Warren Buck Animal Collection, a marabou stork stood, bald, and with a freckled head, he looked like Sam Goldwin. 
 The new yorker 

But a swarm of houseflies buzzing nearby and a dead marabou stork on the edge of the lake make the offer less appealing. 
 Reuters 

The various birds of prey immediately collected-buzzards ,vultures ,crows ,andthe great Marabou stork. 
 The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of... 

Translations for Leptoptilus crumeniferus

Catalan

marabú

Spanish

morabito

Interface language

Meanings of Leptoptilus crumeniferus in English