white stork

See also: white-stork

English

Ciconia ciconia

Pronunciation

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Noun

white stork (plural white storks)

a large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia, that winters in Africa and breeds in Europe; in mythology, it delivers babies

Translations

large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia

Chechen: чӀерийдохург (č̣erīdoχurg)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白鸛 (zh), 白鹳 (zh) (báiguàn)
Danish: hvid stork c
Dutch: ooievaar (nl) m
Faroese: storkur (fo) m
Finnish: kattohaikara (fi)
French: cigogne blanche (fr)

German: Weißstorch (de) m
Hungarian: fehér gólya
Latin: ciconia
Polish: bocian (pl) m
Portuguese: cegonha-branca f
Romanian: barză-albă (ro) f
Russian: бе́лый а́ист m (bélyj áist)
Swedish: vit stork (sv) c

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