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jabiru
Part of speech: NounA Brazilian name for a wading bird, having the same habits as those of the stork, and with an enormous bill.
Usage examples "jabiru":- The jabiru, the largest bird in Guiana, feeds in the marshy savanna through which you have just passed. - "Wanderings in South America", Charles Waterton.
- It would have been as silent as midnight, and all as still and unmoved as a monument had not the jabiru in the marsh, and a few vultures soaring over the mountain’ s top, shown that it was not quite deserted by animated nature. - "Wanderings in South America", Charles Waterton.