(1) ' n. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae. ' --
Wiktionary(2) ' According to European folklore,
the stork is responsible for bringing babies to new parents. The legend is very ancient, but was popularised by a 19th-century
Hans Christian Andersen story called "The Storks". '
-- Wikipedia { en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stork#Storks_and_childbirth }
EXAMPLE:
' Harry's wife, Grace, was stretched out on a
chaise longue . . . She was smoking a small cigar in a long holder made from the legbone of a stork. A stork was a large European bird, about half the size of a Bermuda
Ern. Children who wanted to know where babies came from were sometimes told that they were brought by storks. People who told their children such a thing felt that their children were too young to think intelligently about {sex}.
' And there were actually pictures of storks delivering babies on birth announcements and in cartoons and so on, for children to see . . .
' Dwayne Hoover and Harry
LeSabre saw pictures like that when they were very little boys. They believed them, too. '
-- From
Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions" -- Chapter 15 (pages
162 -
163).