ciconia nigra

1. 1.

   Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below

   Synonymsblack stork

   Broaderstork

   Part ofCiconia

Questions about ciconia nigra

What does ciconia nigra mean?

ciconia nigra means "Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below".

What is another word for ciconia nigra?

Close synonyms include black stork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ciconia nigra a common word?

ciconia nigra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.