wood ibis

Questions about wood ibis

What does wood ibis mean?

wood ibis means "any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood ibis?

Close synonyms include wood stork, Ibis ibis, wood stork, flinthead, 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 wood ibis a common word?

wood ibis 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.