OXFORD DICTIONARY
, n.
1 any long-legged large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae, esp. Ciconia ciconia with white plumage, black wing-tips, a long reddish beak, and red feet, nesting esp. on tall buildings.
2 this bird as the pretended bringer of babies.
stork's-bill a plant of the genus Pelargonium or Erodium.
OE storc, prob. rel. to STARK (from its rigid posture)
THESAURUS
accouchement, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity, the
stork, travail