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ibes

ibes is the plural of ibis.

Meaning of ibis

Noun

ibis (plural ibis or ibises or ibides or ibes)

  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.
    • 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 4

Proper noun capitalized: Ibes

Ibes

  1. (plural) plural of Ibe

Questions about ibes

What is ibes the plural of?
Ibes is the plural of ibis.
What part of speech is ibes?
Ibes is a proper noun.

Words near ibes in the dictionary

  1. iberomesornithid
  2. iberomesornithids
  3. iberulite
  4. iberulites
  5. Iberville Parish
  6. ibes
  7. Ibeson
  8. IBEW
  9. ibex
  10. ibexes
  11. Ibexian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ibes (page history and authors); Ibes (page history and authors); ibis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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