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Wetlands wader
Answer for the clue "Wetlands wader ", 4 letters:
ibis
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Word definitions for ibis in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stork-like bird, late 14c., from Greek ibis , from Egyptian hab , a sacred bird of Egypt.
Usage examples of ibis.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
At the farthest tip, near Cape Sable, the sky flashed with wild birds: herons, curlews, ibises, blue egrets, white pelicans, sandpipers and a few roseate spoonbills.
Off to the left, at the edge of a shallow among the bordering trees, a flock of ibis were stalking and stabbing in the plashy mud with their curved, dark-red bills.
Well aware of their sacrosanctity, the ibises exploited it shamelessly.
Her mind had gone straight back to Canuche, to the outdoor market of Canuche Town, when she had taken a length of gorgeous blue Thornen silk and moved through a few basic steps of an Ibis dance.
Round the white walls ran broad divans, also white, covered with prayer rugs from Bagdad, and large cushions, elaborately worked in dull gold and silver thread, with patterns of ibises and flamingoes in flight.
I spied limpkins as well as ibises, snakebirds and species I cannot catalogue.
In each he sat the horse oblivious to the glares of Alexandrians and ibises, then dismounted to examine the ceilings of the covered arcades and walkways.
They could hear and occasionally see the swamp birds, the herons, the huge blue herons and the green ones, the bitterns, the white ibis with coral-colored legs and beaks, the grebes and the snake birds.
At the farthest tip, near Cape Sable, the sky flashed with wild birds: herons, curlews, ibises, blue egrets, white pelicans, sandpipers and a few roseate spoonbills.
Ibis had told him that they move the dead about in some hospitals on the lower level of apparently empty covered gurneys, the deceased traveling their own paths in their own covered ways.
And now I would have offered the richest sacrifices I could find-unblemished white bulls and desert antelopes and ibises and flamingoes by the dozen-to have had her back again.
Well aware of their sacrosanctity, the ibises exploited it shamelessly.
Within the Royal Enclosure a small army of slaves gathered up the ibises tenderly, put them into cages and then casually emptied the cages into the streets outside.
Otherwise, thought Caesar, secretly grinning as his lictors cleared a path for him through the ibises, they are the biggest nuisances in all creation.