stork 音标拼音: [st'ɔrk]
n . 鹳
鹳
stork n 1 :
large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white -
and -
black plumage Stork \
Stork \,
n . [
AS .
storc ;
akin to G .
storch ,
OHG .
storah ,
Icel .
storkr ,
Dan . &
Sw .
stork ,
and perhaps to Gr . ?
a vulture .] (
Zool .)
Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family {
Ciconidae },
having long legs and a long ,
pointed bill .
They are found both in the Old World and in America ,
and belong to {
Ciconia }
and several allied genera .
The European white stork ({
Ciconia alba })
is the best known .
It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building ,
a chimney ,
a church spire ,
or a pillar .
The black stork ({
Ciconia nigra })
is native of Asia ,
Africa ,
and Europe .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Black -
necked stork },
the East Indian jabiru .
{
Hair -
crested stork },
the smaller adjutant of India ({
Leptoptilos Javanica }).
{
Giant stork },
the adjutant .
{
Marabou stork }.
See {
Marabou }. --
Saddle -
billed stork ,
the African jabiru .
See {
Jabiru }.
{
Stork '
s bill } (
Bot .),
any plant of the genus {
Pelargonium };
--
so called in allusion to the beaklike prolongation of the axis of the receptacle of its flower .
See {
Pelargonium }.
[
1913 Webster ]
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "
stork ":
accouchement ,
birth ,
birth throes ,
birthing ,
blessed event ,
childbearing ,
childbed ,
childbirth ,
confinement ,
delivery ,
genesis ,
giving birth ,
hatching ,
having a baby ,
labor ,
multiparity ,
nascency ,
nativity ,
parturition ,
the Nativity ,
the stork ,
travail Secure indenTity acrOss boRders acKnowledged Stork Heb .
hasidah ,
meaning "
kindness ,"
indicating thus the character of the bird ,
which is noted for its affection for its young .
It is in the list of birds forbidden to be eaten by the Levitical law (
Lev .
11 :
19 ;
Deut .
14 :
18 ).
It is like the crane ,
but larger in size .
Two species are found in Palestine ,
the white ,
which are dispersed in pairs over the whole country ;
and the black ,
which live in marshy places and in great flocks .
They migrate to Palestine periodically (
about the 22nd of March ).
Jeremiah alludes to this (
Jer .
8 :
7 ).
At the appointed time they return with unerring sagacity to their old haunts ,
and re -
occupy their old nests . "
There is a well -
authenticated account of the devotion of a stork which ,
at the burning of the town of Delft ,
after repeated and unsuccessful attempts to carry off her young ,
chose rather to remain and perish with them than leave them to their fate .
Well might the Romans call it the pia avis !"
In Job 39 :
13 (
A .
V .),
instead of the expression "
or wings and feathers unto the ostrich " (
marg ., "
the feathers of the stork and ostrich "),
the Revised Version has "
are her pinions and feathers kindly " (
marg .,
instead of "
kindly ,"
reads "
like the stork '
s ").
The object of this somewhat obscure verse seems to be to point out a contrast between the stork ,
as distinguished for her affection for her young ,
and the ostrich ,
as distinguished for her indifference .
Zechariah (
5 :
9 )
alludes to the beauty and power of the stork '
s wings .
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