marabou

• ⇰ चमरघेंघ

• ⇰ A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of the genus <gen>Leptoptilos</gen> (formerly <spn>Ciconia</spn>), esp. the African species (<spn>Leptoptilus crumeniferus</spn> syn. <spn>Leptoptilos crumenifer</spn>), whose downy under-wing feathers are used
• ⇰ One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
• ⇰ A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name.