Marabou

Definitions: Marabou

Marabou

Noun

1. Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; downy under-wing feathers are used to trim garments.

2. Downy feathers of marabou storks used for trimming garments.

Synonyms: Marabou

Synonyms: marabou stork (n), marabout (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Marabou

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Mixture	Half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron;quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Marabou

English words defined with "marabou": marabou stork. (references)

Specialty definitions using "marabou": Marabou Feathers. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Marabou

Domain	Title
Books	Early Nutrition & Lifelong Health: 16th Marabou International Symposium Stockholm, Sweden (Vol 54, No. 2 Part 2) (reference) Marabou Beach (reference) Marabou Stork Nightmares (reference) Miserable Marabou (reference) The moon and the marabou stork (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Marabou

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Usage Frequency: Marabou

"Marabou" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Marabou" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Marabou

Expression using "marabou": marabou stork. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "marabou": marabou-trimmed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marabou

Language		Translations for "marabou"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marabu. (various references)

Arabic		‏أبو سعن طائر. (various references)

Bulgarian		марабу. (various references)

French		marabout (marabout). (various references)

German		marabu. (various references)

Greek		μαραμπού (adjutant bird, marabout). (various references)

Hungarian		marabu (adjutant, adjutant bird, adjutant crane, adjutant stork). (various references)

Italian		marabù. (various references)

Pig Latin		araboumay

Portuguese		estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcerted, foulard, impair, injure, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poisoner, queer, rub, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Romanian		marabut, marabu (adjutant). (various references)

Russian		марабу. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		marabu. (various references)

Spanish		marabú. (various references)

Swedish		marabu. (various references)

Thai		นกกระสาแอฟริกาขนา�"ใหญ่. (various references)

Turkish		marabu, ince floş, hint leyleği (adjutant-stork). (various references)

Ukranian		марабу. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Marabou

Derivations
	Words beginning with "marabou": marabous, marabout, marabouts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Marabou" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amarabout, Darboux, Mahabad, Marab, marabout, Marajo, Marambio, Marbod, Marboua, Marcabru, Marhaba, Maribai, maribou, Marilou, Marjanov, Marjayoun, Marsabit, Merbau, Miaou, mijanou, Miyakou, Mogambo, Moriatou, Mugrabi, Muradov, Muraour, Muyabo, Muyabu, Parabaun, Saracouu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Marabou"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "marabou" (pronounced me"rubuw')
5	-e" r u b uw'	caribou.
3	-u b uw'	Bugaboo.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Marabou

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-m-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: aboma, amour, aroma, rumba, umbra.
	-3 letters: ambo, arum, aura, barm, boar, bora, bura, maar, mora, mura, roam, umbo.
	-4 letters: aba, abo, ama, amu, arb, arm, baa, bam, bar, boa, bra, bro, bum, bur, mar, moa, mob, mor, oar, ora, orb, our, ram, rob, rom, rub, rum, urb.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, am, ar, ba, bo, ma, mo, mu, om, or, um.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-m-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: marabous, marabout, tamboura.
	+2 letters: marabouts, tambouras.
	+3 letters: ambulatory, columbaria.
	+4 letters: adumbration, lumbosacral, masturbator.
	+5 letters: adumbrations, ambulatories, ambulatorily, backcourtman, masturbation, masturbators, masturbatory, perambulator.
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