Real Dictionary

stork
countable noun: A stork is a large bird with a long beak and long legs, which lives near water.

stork in American English
any of a family (Ciconiidae) of large, long-legged, mostly Old World wading birds having a long neck and bill; esp., the European white stork (Ciconia ciconia) that nests on rooftops and in trees: a symbol of childbirth, from the notion perpetrated in eup
noun: any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill

stork in British English
noun: any large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae, chiefly of warm regions of the Old World, having very long legs and a long stout pointed bill, and typically having a white-and-black plumage: order Ciconiiformes