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sacred ibis

NOUN
  1. African ibis venerated by ancient Egyptians

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  • The failure of the swamphen extermination project -- expensive in staff time, shotgun shells and gas -- contrasts sharply with a similar effort to knock out a budding population of sacred ibis, a long-legged exotic from Africa that in 2007 was nesting in Palm Beach and South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
  • Known to the pharaohs as the crested ibis, it was regularly featured in jewelry and art, and, like the sacred ibis, had its own hieroglyph which symbolized splendor and brilliance.
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