JABIRUS Synonyms

• lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis

• United States writer (1871-1900)

• large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world

• United States poet (1899-1932)

• a small constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Phoenix

• stretch (the neck) so as to see better

• any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season

• grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

• Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

• Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.

• large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

• wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon

• large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage

• large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle

• large mostly white Australian stork

• large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle

• large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America

• large mostly white Australian stork

• large mostly white Australian stork