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sacred ibis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables
sa-cred ibis
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wading bird of species Threskiornis aethiopicus, of the family Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

sacred ibises (plural)

Synonyms

African sacred ibis threskiornis aethiopica

Questions

What does sacred ibis mean?
A wading bird of species Threskiornis aethiopicus, of the family Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.

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