sacred ibis

English

Wikispecies

Noun

sacred ibis (plural sacred ibis or sacred ibises)

1. Threskiornis aethiopicus, a species of wading bird of the ibis 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.

Translations

Threskiornis aethiopicus

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: ցեծ (cʻec)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃及聖䴉／埃及圣鹮, 埃及圣鹮 (Āijí shènghuán)

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• Finnish: pyhäiibis (fi)
• Russian: свяще́нный и́бис m (svjaščénnyj íbis)
• Spanish: ibis sagrado m
• Swedish: helig ibis c