MYCTERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mycteria mean? 

• MYCTERIA (noun)
  The noun MYCTERIA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis

  Familiarity information: MYCTERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYCTERIA (noun)

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Meaning:

A genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mycteria; Mycteria

Hypernyms ("Mycteria" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Mycteria"):

flinthead; Mycteria americana; wood ibis; wood stork (an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics)

Holonyms ("Mycteria" is a member of...):

Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)