ALL meanings of stork
stork
S s - noun stork large wading bird 1
- noun stork folklore: bird that brings babies 1
- noun plural stork any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis. 1
- noun plural stork the stork, this bird as the mythical or symbolic deliverer of a new baby: My brother and his wife are expecting the stork in July. 1
- noun stork a variety of domestic fancy pigeon resembling the fairy swallow 0
- noun stork any of a family (Ciconiidae) of large, long-legged, mostly Old World wading birds having a long neck and bill; esp., the European white stork (Ciconia ciconia) that nests on rooftops and in trees: a symbol of childbirth, from the notion perpetrated in euphemistic tales to children that it brings newborn babies 0
- countable noun stork A stork is a large bird with a long beak and long legs, which lives near water. 0
- noun stork any large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae, chiefly of warm regions of the Old World, having very long legs and a long stout pointed bill, and typically having a white-and-black plumage: order Ciconiiformes 0