Meaning of STORK
| Pronunciation: | | stork
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| | Definition: | | [n] large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
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| | See Also: | | adjutant, adjutant bird, adjutant stork, black stork, black-necked stork, Ciconia ciconia, Ciconia nigra, Ciconiidae, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, family Ciconiidae, jabiru, Jabiru mycteria, Leptoptilus crumeniferus, Leptoptilus dubius, marabou, marabou stork, marabout, Mycteria americana, openbill, policeman bird, saddlebill, wader, wading bird, white stork, wood ibis, wood stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Seeing a stork in your dream, symbolizes a new birth and/or fertility. The birth may be a fruition of some idea. |
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| | Definition: | | Heb. hasidah, meaning "kindness," indicating thus the character of the bird, which is noted for its affection for its young. It is in the list of birds forbidden to be eaten by the Levitical law (Lev. 11:19; Deut. 14:18). It is like the crane, but larger in size. Two species are found in Palestine, the white, which are dispersed in pairs over the whole country; and the black, which live in marshy places and in great flocks. They migrate to Palestine periodically (about the 22nd of March). Jeremiah alludes to this (Jer. 8:7). At the appointed time they return with unerring sagacity to their old haunts, and re-occupy their old nests. "There is a well-authenticated account of the devotion of a stork which, at the burning of the town of Delft, after repeated and unsuccessful attempts to carry off her young, chose rather to remain and perish with them than leave them to their fate. Well might the Romans call it the pia avis!" In Job 39:13 (A.V.), instead of the expression "or wings and feathers unto the ostrich" (marg., "the feathers of the stork and ostrich"), the Revised Version has "are her pinions and feathers kindly" (marg., instead of "kindly," reads "like the stork's"). The object of this somewhat obscure verse seems to be to point out a contrast between the stork, as distinguished for her affection for her young, and the ostrich, as distinguished for her indifference. Zechariah (5:9) alludes to the beauty and power of the stork's wings. |
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