flinthead

1. 1.

   an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics

   Synonymswood ibiswood storkMycteria americana

   Broaderstork

   Part ofMycteria

Other forms of flinthead

plural

flintheads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flinthead

What does flinthead mean?

flinthead means "an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics".

How many syllables are in flinthead?

flinthead has 3 syllables: flin-the-ad. The stress falls on "flin".

What is another word for flinthead?

Close synonyms include wood ibis, wood stork, Mycteria americana. 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 flinthead a common word?

flinthead is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.