noun🔗ShareAny of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans."While walking along the shore, we saw an ibis using its long, curved bill to search for crabs in the muddy sand. "animalbirdnatureorganismbiologyecologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading