HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ibis
/ˈaɪ.bɪs/
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What does ibis mean?
noun
- 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.
- plural of IBI
proper noun
- 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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IPA pronunciation
/ˈaɪ.bɪs/
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The moosahernee is a black and white bird, I fancy a sort of ibis, and is good eating.
To the red ibis and the white miller and the brown hackle and the gray fly they were alike indifferent.
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Great blue herons were stalking beside these pools, and from one we flushed a white ibis.
The Ibis tantalus takes four years to come to full maturity, but sometimes breeds in the second year (vol.
The Ibis, which is represented with human hands and feet, bears the staff of Isis in one hand and the cross in the other.