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n. - Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.

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  • The ibis is a natural enemy of snakes, and so they scattered the snakes, and the army was safe.
  • The ibis is a bird that was found so useful in destroying locusts and serpents in Egypt, that in olden times it was made a capital crime for any one to destroy it.
  • The LXX. and Vulgate render this word by "ibis", i.e., the
  • Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and other ePub-compatible devices, as well as reader software such as ibis and Bookworm.
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