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Meanings of marabou stork in English

Catalan
marabú
Spanish
morabito
Wikidata

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

marabú
Russian
leptoptilos crumenifer
Portuguese
leptoptilos crumeniferus
Spanish
marabu africano
Catalan
marabú africà
Wikidata

Species of bird.

Related terms
leptoptilos crumenifer
Synonyms
Examples for "marabout"
Examples for "marabout"
1
He did not give the name of the marabout, or the school.
Reuters
2
The marabout asked a blessing, then the king said to Reynard-
Who is mark twain?
3
The marabout went into the next room, and got some French writing paper.
The Golden Silence
4
Great marabout hangs out there-kindof Mussulman pope of the desert.
The Golden Silence
5
This present marabout was his next of kin-orso everybody believes.
The Golden Silence
1
You're looking rather weedy, standing on one leg like a marabou stork!
A harum-scarum schoolgirl
2
Then I looked again, and it was a marabou stork.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
3
It was all the same, in sneakers, or marabou.
Family album
4
A little blue chiffon dress, its hem fringed with marabou feathers, was a Coast sell-out last summer.
The Irish Times
5
Veronica has a sudden image of a dozen marabou storks feeding on Derek's headless corpse, and turns away.
Night of knives
Usage of marabou stork in English
1
You're looking rather weedy, standing on one leg like a marabou stork!
A harum-scarum schoolgirl
2
Then I looked again, and it was a marabou stork.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
3
In the Warren Buck Animal Collection, a marabou stork stood, bald, and with a freckled head, he looked like Sam Goldwin.
The new yorker
4
But a swarm of houseflies buzzing nearby and a dead marabou stork on the edge of the lake make the offer less appealing.
Reuters
5
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...
6
Veronica has a sudden image of a dozen marabou storks feeding on Derek's headless corpse, and turns away.
Night of knives
7
5, the Marabou stork, sometimes accompanied by the adjutant.
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the ...
8
Farther out, waiting their turn, were the vultures and marabou storks, and still farther out, the jackals and other small scavengers circled warily.
The Lost World