(n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
(n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In experiments, adult marabou storks were fed with hydatid fluid of viable Echinococcus cysts obtained from sheep and goats.
(2) It is named after the Marabou chocolate factory, which opened in 1916, partly inspired by the Cadbury factory in Bourneville, Birmingham.
(3) The feeding trials have shown that the marabou does not play a role in the spread of echinococcosis from the abattoir.
(4) In contrast to this, the uropygial gland secretion of the marabou is a triglyceride mixture.
Marabout
Definition:
(n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.