Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a large heavy head suggestive of a whale's: noting the shoebill. See
whale-head .
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Examples
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The whale-headed stork is still so little known that there is nothing in these contradictions that ought to surprise us.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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All the whale-headed storks that have been received up to the present have come from the region of the White Nile; but Mr.H. Johnston, who traveled in Congo in 1882, asserts that he met with the bird on the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Of all the wonders that inhabit the vast continent of Africa, the most singular one is undoubtedly the _Balæniceps_, or whale-headed stork.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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At the time of writing the reticulated python is said to be leading the whale-headed stork by a matter of three rats.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various
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In Africa that list should include the eland, white rhinoceros, blessbok, bontebok, kudu, giraffes and southern elephants, sable antelope, rhinoceros south of the Zambesi, leucoryx antelope and whale-headed stork.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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