white ibis

noun

1

: an ibis (Eudocimus albus) of tropical America and the southern U.S. having white plumage with the wings tipped with black

2

: an Asiatic ibis (Threskiornis melanocephala) having the plumage chiefly white and the bare skin of head and neck blue-black

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