marabou

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Wikispecies

Leptoptilos crumenifer

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Etymology

From French marabou, an older spelling of marabout.

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Noun

marabou (plural marabous)

  1. Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
    Synonyms: adjutant stork, marabou stork
  2. (dated, US, Louisiana) A person having five-eighths black ancestry; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
    • 1815, Mungo Park, The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa:
      Madimarian , a Marabou, killed me a bullock; I give him one bottle of powder.
  3. (textiles) A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring.
  4. A thin fabric made from this silk, as for scarves.

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