sacred ibis

sacred ibis

English

Wikispecies

Noun

sacred ibis (plural sacred ibis or sacred ibises)

1. Threskiornis aethiopicus, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.

Translations

Threskiornis aethiopicus

Armenian: Old Armenian: ցեծ (cʿec) Chinese: Mandarin: 埃及聖䴉, 埃及圣鹮 (Āijí shènghuán)

Finnish: pyhäiibis (fi) Russian: свяще́нный и́бис m (svjaščénnyj íbis) Spanish: ibis sagrado m