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noun
- A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
- the stork: a mythical stork responsible for bringing newborn baby, babies to their parents
Translations: - Dutch: ooievaar
- French: cigogne
- German: Storch
- Italian: cicogna
- Spanish: cigí¼eí±a
Etymology: stork, from storc, from common Germanic - sturkaz, from (PIE.)
- strÌgos, probably an extension of
- ster- "stiff" (from its movements). Near cognates include German Storch and Icelandic storkur.
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