leptoptilus crumeniferus

Questions about leptoptilus crumeniferus

What does leptoptilus crumeniferus mean?

leptoptilus crumeniferus means "large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments".

What is another word for leptoptilus crumeniferus?

Close synonyms include marabou, marabout, marabou 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 leptoptilus crumeniferus a common word?

leptoptilus crumeniferus 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.