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# ibis

«ibis» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wading bird with long legs and a long, thin, curved…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an ibis, ibises or ibis)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ibis is a wading bird with long legs and a long, thin, curved beak that lives near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#m1)

2) (Australia, slang) The Australian white ibis is often called a «bin chicken» because it eats from rubbish bins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on birds and habitats; in history, the ancient Egyptians thought the ibis was sacred to the god Thoth; in Australia, the bin chicken jokes.

### examples

- An ibis poked its curved beak into the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x1)
- The ancient Egyptians mummified ibises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x2)
- A bin chicken stole my sandwich in the park (Australia, slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x3)
- The scarlet ibis is bright red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x4)
- Ibises often nest in big groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x5)
- Yes, now you shall taste something nice, and you will see the marabout bird, and the ibis, and the crane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/#x6)

### note

Plural: ibises (or ibis). Uses «an ibis». Say it «EYE-bis».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ibis» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ibis/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.