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mycteria
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mycteria has 1 sense
- mycteria(n = noun.animal) genus mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis; Array is a kind of bird genus
is a member of ciconiidae, family ciconiidae
CIDE DICTIONARY
mycteria, prop. n.
A genus of birds including certain of the wood ibises, including the endangered Mycteria americana ; it is sometimes assigned to a subfamily Mycteriinae . [WordNet 1.5]
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