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Ibis

Noun CEFR B1
ˈaɪ.bɪs

Definitions

  1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
  2. Initialism of in-body image stabilization, in which stabilization mechanisms are built into the camera (phone) body rather than the lens.

Equivalents

Españolibis
Françaisibis
17 more languages
العربيةأبو منجل
Българскиибис
Catalàibis
Češtinaibis
Հայերենցեծքաջահավ
Italianoibis
日本語とき朱鷺
Қазақ тілітырнақұтан
한국어따오기
Latinaibis
Македонскиибис
Nederlandsibis
Polskiibis
Portuguêsíbis
Русскийибис
Tagalogibis

Examples

“It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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