white stork

See also: white-stork

English

Ciconia ciconia

Pronunciation

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Noun

white stork (plural white storks)

1. a large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia, that winters in Africa and breeds in Europe; in mythology, it delivers babies

Translations

large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia

• Chechen: чӏерийдохург (čʼeriı̇doxurg)
• Chichewa: chiswankhono
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白鸛／白鹳 (zh) (báiguàn), 白鹳 (zh) (báiguàn)

• Danish: hvid stork c
• Dutch: ooievaar (nl) m
• Faroese: storkur (fo) m
• Finnish: kattohaikara (fi)
• French: cigogne blanche (fr)
• German: Weißstorch (de) m
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• Hungarian: fehér gólya
• Latin: ciconia
• Navajo: tsídiidaanézí łigaaígíí
• Polish: bocian (pl) m
• Portuguese: cegonha-branca f
• Romanian: barză-albă (ro) f
• Russian: бе́лый а́ист m (bélyj áist)
• Spanish: cigüeña blanca f
• Swedish: vit stork (sv) c