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What is the difference between stork and heron?

stork | heron |

Heron is a coordinate term of stork.



As nouns the difference between stork and heron

is that stork is a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae while heron is a long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

stork

English

(Ciconiidae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  • The mythical bringer of babies to familes.

    • Derived terms

    * (black-necked stork) * (giant stork) * (hair-crested stork) * saddle-billed stork * storky

    See also

    * crane * egret * heron

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    heron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (a wading bird) egret, bittern, crane, heronsew, stork

    External links

    * ("heron" on Wikipedia) * (Ardeidae) * (Ardeidae)

    Anagrams

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