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Adjacent Wordsblack-gum
black-haired
black-headed minnow
black-headed snake
Black-hearted
Black-jack
Black-lead
black-legged tick
Black-letter
black-marked
black-market
Black-mouthed
black-necked cobra
black-necked grebe
black-necked stilt
black-on-black
black-out
black-quarter
black-seeded
black-sheep
black-spotted trout
black-stem spleenwort
black-stemmed spleenwort
black-tailed deer
black-tie
black-whiskered vireo
black-winged stilt
blackamoor
blackback flounder
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black-necked stork definitions
n 1: large mostly white Australian stork [syn: policeman bird, black-necked stork, jabiru, Xenorhyncus asiaticus]
Stork Stork, n. [AS. storc; akin to G. storch, OHG. storah, Icel. storkr, Dan. & Sw. stork, and perhaps to Gr. ? a vulture.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconid[ae], having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Black-necked stork, the East Indian jabiru. Hair-crested stork, the smaller adjutant of India (Leptoptilos Javanica). Giant stork, the adjutant. Marabou stork. See Marabou. -- Saddle-billed stork, the African jabiru. See Jabiru. Stork's bill (Bot.), any plant of the genus Pelargonium; -- so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower. See Pelargonium.
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