STORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stork mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

wader; wading bird (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stork"):

Ciconia ciconia; white stork (the common stork of Europe; white with black wing feathers and a red bill)

black stork; Ciconia nigra (Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below)

adjutant; adjutant bird; adjutant stork; Leptoptilus dubius (large Indian stork with a military gait)

Leptoptilus crumeniferus; marabou; marabou stork; marabout (large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments)

openbill (stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip)

jabiru; Jabiru mycteria (large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America)

Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis; jabiru; saddlebill (large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle)

black-necked stork; jabiru; policeman bird; Xenorhyncus asiaticus (large mostly white Australian stork)

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 ("stork" is a member of...):

Ciconiidae; family Ciconiidae (storks)

 Context examples 

"It was a stork, if ever I saw one."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His bolt struck the stork just where its wing meets the body, and the bird whirled aloft in a last convulsive flutter before falling wounded and flapping to the earth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They played tag and soldiers, danced and sang, and when it began to grow dark they all piled onto the sofa about the Professor, while he told charming fairy stories of the storks on the chimney tops, and the little 'koblods', who ride the snowflakes as they fall.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nearer and nearer came the two birds, all absorbed in their own contest, the stork wheeling upwards, the hawk still fluttering above it, until they were not a hundred paces from the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course, said he, with his clumsy and ponderous sarcasm, Professor Summerlee will understand that when I speak of a pterodactyl I mean a stork—only it is the kind of stork which has no feathers, a leathery skin, membranous wings, and teeth in its jaws.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hannah had 'dished up' an astonishing breakfast for the traveler, finding it impossible to vent her excitement in any other way, and Meg and Jo fed their mother like dutiful young storks, while they listened to her whispered account of Father's state, Mr. Brooke's promise to stay and nurse him, the delays which the storm occasioned on the homeward journey, and the unspeakable comfort Laurie's hopeful face had given her when she arrived, worn out with fatigue, anxiety, and cold.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Ah! camarade,” he cried, “you shall have a stoup with me for this! What then, old dog, would not the hawk please thee, but thou must have the stork as well. Oh, to my heart again!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bird life was abundant, especially the wading birds, stork, heron, and ibis gathering in little groups, blue, scarlet, and white, upon every log which jutted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with fish of every shape and color.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell, his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative young stork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly, the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whipping the other from his belt, he sent it skimming some few feet from the earth with so true an aim that it struck and transfixed the stork for the second time ere it could reach the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)