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ibis

/ˈaɪ.bɪs/

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What does ibis mean?

noun

  1. 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.
  2. plural of IBI

proper noun

  1. Initialism of in-body image stabilization, in which stabilization mechanisms are built into the camera (phone) body rather than the lens.

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/ˈaɪ.bɪs/

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The moosahernee is a black and white bird, I fancy a sort of ibis, and is good eating.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
To the red ibis and the white miller and the brown hackle and the gray fly they were alike indifferent.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2671
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Great blue herons were stalking beside these pools, and from one we flushed a white ibis.
Theodore RooseveltHunting the Grisly and Other Sketches An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and RifleProject Gutenberg ebook #3337
The Ibis tantalus takes four years to come to full maturity, but sometimes breeds in the second year (vol.
Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexProject Gutenberg ebook #2300
The Ibis, which is represented with human hands and feet, bears the staff of Isis in one hand and the cross in the other.
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639