Crossword clues for ibis
ibis
- Venerated Nile bird
- Shorebird with a curved beak
- Long-beaked bird
- Leggy wading bird
- Hieroglyphic bird
- Bird sacred to ancient Egyptians
- Wading creature
- Wading bird venerated by ancient Egyptians
- Wading bird in hieroglyphics
- Wader in warm waters
- Spoonbill's kin
- Spoonbill kin
- Pelican cousin
- Nile wading birds
- Nile creature
- Heronlike bird
- Heron kin
- Egyptian wading bird
- Curved-bill bird
- Bird worshipped in ancient Egypt
- Bird with a curved bill
- Bird venerated in ancient Egypt
- Bird sacred to Thoth
- Tall wader
- Symbol of Thoth
- Straw-necked ___
- Stork's cousin
- Spoonbill's relative
- Sacred Egyptian symbol
- Sacred bird of the Egyptians
- Sacred bird in ancient Egypt
- Relative of the stork
- Nile's sacred bird
- Florida flier
- Egret kin seen in hieroglyphs
- Curved-bill wading bird
- Bird mummified by Egyptians
- Bird associated with the Egyptian god Thoth
- Big bird in the wading room?
- Winged University of Miami mascot
- White warm-water wader
- Wetlands denizen
- Water bird with a curved beak
- Warm-water wader
- Wading marsh bird
- Wading bird with a curved bill
- Wading bird venerated in Ancient Egypt
- Wading bird of Egypt
- Wading bird in ancient Egyptian art
- Wader with long legs and bill
- Wader depicted in hieroglyphics
- Venerated bird in ancient Egypt
- University of Miami's mascot Sebastian, e.g
- Tropical wader
- Tropical cousin of the heron
- Thoth's symbol
- Straw-necked bird
- Storklike critter
- Storklike creature
- Stork-like wader
- Spoonbills relative
- Shorebird with a curved bill
- Sacred wading bird of the pharaohs
- Sacred wading bird of the Nile
- Sacred wader of old Egypt
- Sacred wader of Egypt
- Sacred wader of ancient Egypt
- Sacred Nile wader
- Sacred bird, to some
- Pelican relative
- One venerated by ancient Egyptians
- One of the first birds released by Noah after the flood, in legend
- One of millions mummified at Saqqara
- Once-venerated bird
- Nile River bird
- Miami Hurricanes mascot Sebastian is one
- Medium-sized wading bird
- Long legged water bird
- It was sacred to Tut
- It has a curved bill
- Hook-billed wading bird
- Hieroglyphic creature
- Hieroglyphic animal
- Herald of the flood, in Egyptian mythology
- Harvard Lampoon's winged symbol
- Graceful wading bird
- Feathered Nile wader
- Everglades native with a curved bill
- Egyptian art object
- Curved-beaked wader
- Curve-beaked wader
- Crustacean eater
- Creature seen in hieroglyphics
- Creature sacred to Thoth
- Crayfish-eating wader
- Crayfish-eating bird
- Bird with long neck and legs and a curved bill
- Bird with a long beak
- Bird with a curved beak
- Bird venerated by the Egyptians
- Bird that was sacred in ancient Egypt
- Bird that probes mud for food
- Bird that gets a leg up?
- Bird seen in Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Bird on the Rosetta Stone
- Bird in Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Bird associated with the god Thoth
- Avian symbol of the Harvard Lampoon
- Ancient Egyptian bird
- American white ___ (long-billed bird)
- "The Scarlet ___" (short story by James Hurst)
- "The Scarlet ___" (classic James Hurst short story)
- "Sacred" symbol of Israel's special forces
- "Sacred" bird of Africa
- Water bird
- Long-billed wader
- Sacred wading bird
- Head of the Egyptian god Thoth
- University of Miami mascot
- Wading bird
- Sacred wader
- Bird Egyptians venerated
- Nile bird
- Wading birds
- Sacred bird of the Pharaohs
- Hieroglyph symbol
- Long-legged wader
- One that gets a leg up?
- Sacred Egyptian bird
- Sacred bird of the Nile
- Nile wader
- Spoonbill cousin
- Egyptian art figure
- Cousin of a heron
- Head of the Egyptian god Thoth, in many renderings
- It was sacred in ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egyptians held it sacred
- Hieroglyphics bird
- Thoth had the head of one
- One sacred to ancient Egyptians
- ...
- Sacred ___
- Everglades wader
- Cousin of a spoonbill
- Egyptian sacred bird
- Incarnation of the Egyptian god Thoth
- Bird seen in hieroglyphics
- Object of veneration in ancient Egypt
- Relative of a stork
- Cousin of a stork
- Curve-billed wader
- Sacred symbol of ancient Egypt
- Sacred bird of ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egyptians revered it
- University of Miami mascot Sebastian the __
- Long-billed bird
- Object of ancient Egyptian veneration
- Large bill holder
- Ancient hieroglyph
- Relative of a spoonbill
- National bird of Trinidad and Tobago
- Animal avatar of Thoth
- Bird with a forcepslike bill
- Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
- Leggy Nilot
- Heron's cousin
- Heron's relative
- Stork's relative
- Relative of 15 Down
- Stork's kin
- Big Egyptian bird
- Heron cousin
- Large wading birds with down-curved bills
- Egyptian bird
- Heron relative
- Heron relation
- Sacred Nile bird
- Egyptian wader
- Big-billed bird known for wading
- Everglades denizen
- Hieroglyphic representation
- Tropical wading bird
- Relative of the heron
- Leggy wader
- Long-legged bird
- Jabiru's cousin
- Long-billed waders
- Heron's kin
- Bird for Cleo?
- A cousin of 54 Down
- Nile denizen
- Sacred bird of Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Egret's relative
- Bird of the Nile
- Okefenokee denizen
- Cousin of the heron
- Sacred wading bird of ancient Egypt
- Sacred bird of 12 Down
- Winged wader
- One's seen around swinging hotel chain
- One billed in bistro in Southwark for starters
- Wading bird with a down-curved bill
- Wader in boots is struggling initially
- Wader I put on twice
- Wader again seen on island
- Large wader
- Bird tucked into garibaldi biscuit
- Bird swinging around above island
- Bird sacred in Ancient Egypt
- Bird ribs rise endlessly
- Bird heads for islands beyond Ionian Sea
- It could take flight if bait's regularly taken
- Irish leader twice gets the bird
- I get an encore - or the bird
- Marsh bird
- Shore bird
- Water bird with a curved bill
- Everglades bird
- White wader
- Wetlands wader
- African wading bird
- Long-legged wading bird
- Bird sacred to Tut
- White wading bird
- Stork relative
- Long-necked wading bird
- Storklike bird
- Wader with a curved bill
- Sacred bird of old Egypt
- Egret's cousin
- Bird venerated by ancient Egyptians
- Long-plumed bird
- Long-billed wading bird
- Certain wading bird
- Hieroglyphic symbol
- Egret relative
- Spoonbill relative
- Long-billed Floridian
- Bird in hieroglyphics
- Bird associated with the Nile River
- Wading bird sacred to Egyptians
- Stork cousin
- Spoonbill's cousin
- Once-worshiped white wader
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ibis \I"bis\, n. [L. ibis, Gr. ?; of Egyptian origin.] (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibid[ae], inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.
Note: The sacred ibis of the ancient Egyptians ( Ibis [AE]thiopica) has the head and neck black, without feathers. The plumage of the body and wings is white, except the tertiaries, which are lengthened and form a dark purple plume. In ancient times this bird was extensively domesticated in Egypt, but it is now seldom seen so far north. The glossy ibis ( Plegadis autumnalis), which is widely distributed both in the Old World and the New, has the head and neck feathered, except between the eyes and bill; the scarlet ibis ( Guara rubra) and the white ibis ( Guara alba) inhabit the West Indies and South America, and are rarely found in the United States. The wood ibis ( Tantalus loculator) of America belongs to the Stork family ( Ciconid[ae]). See Wood ibis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stork-like bird, late 14c., from Greek ibis, from Egyptian hab, a sacred bird of Egypt.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
n. wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
Wikipedia
The ibises (collective plural ibis; classical plurals ibides and ibes) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. "Ibis" derives from the Latin and Ancient Greek word for this group of birds. It also occurs in the scientific name of the cattle egret, (Bubulcus ibis), mistakenly identified in 1757 as being the sacred ibis.
An ibis is a long-legged bird.
Ibis or IBIS may also refer to:
Ibis is a curse poem by the Roman poet Ovid, written during his years in exile across the Black Sea for an offense against Augustus. It is "a stream of violent but extremely learned abuse," modeled on a lost poem of the same title by the Greek Alexandrian poet Callimachus.
Ibis Bicycles is a mountain bike manufacturer located in northern California. It produces the popular Mojo mountain bike frame among other models. Ibis products are distributed in 33 countries.
Ibis, subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union. Topics covered include ecology, conservation, behaviour, palaeontology, and taxonomy of birds. The editor-in-chief is Paul F. Donald ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). The journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell in print and online. It is available free on the internet for institutions in the developing world through the OARE scheme (Online Access to Research in the Environment).
Ibis is a novel by the Colombian writer José María Vargas Vila, written in Rome in 1900.
It tells the story of Teodoro, a man deeply in love, betrayed by the woman he loves. Under the supervision of the Teacher, he must opt for the murder or suicide of that same woman, giving him a dark side towards women, which the teacher has taken himself to do with Teodoro. Passionate and cruel, misogynist and hedonistic, the work repeatedly attacks the Church and love, in defense of sexual pleasures, reason aesthetics and atheism, thus showing a rustic style of work when treating women.
He was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1900 on the publication of his novel Ibis, and received the news with joy.
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.