stork
鹳鸟,鹳,白鹳,鹳雀楼
Definitions
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plural storks, stork.
- : any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill.Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou, white stork, wood ibis.
- : 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.
Examples
So different were they that Lucy Fisher, another friend, used to tease that "Doug had been brought by the stork."
He looks like a stork that dropped a baby and broke it and is coming to explain to the parents.
We just sing beautiful music, hold hands and voilà, a stork brings the baby from heaven.
I always believed someone was going to leave a baby on my doorstep—like the stork.
But the stork was cruel and would not heed him, and led Cedric a weary chase through the marshes and the brakes.
Stuckup, great tall stork of a woman, that lords it over a man as though she was a goddess.
Monson, my old servant, has joined me, looking more like a cross between an owl and a stork than ever!
Vultures and kites are common enough; and Haji Laqlaq the stork comes in regularly from his pilgrimage to Mecca in the spring.
When the child's development has gone far enough, it will be well to dispense with the stork story.