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noun (plural or ibises)
  1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae. They have long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
     
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noun 
  1. (birds) A blue bunting of North America. (Scientific name: Passerina cyanea.)
     
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adjective 
  1. pertaining to a member of the Order Insessores, or perching birds; perching or designed for perching
  • 1974: Bruno stood by the fire of sticks and pineknots, nursing his coffee, his cock snub and in the codpiece of his curt briefs. " Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
     
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initialism (or I/O)
  1. (computing), (electronics) input and output
  2. (grammar) Indirect Object
  3. German abbreviation for (lang, de, in Ordnung) ("all right")
     

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