marabou stork

Questions about marabou stork

What does marabou stork mean?

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

What is another word for marabou stork?

Close synonyms include marabou, marabout, Leptoptilus crumeniferus. 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 marabou stork a common word?

marabou stork 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.