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adjutant bird

adjutant stork

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noun
either of two large carrion-eating storks, Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus, which are closely related and similar to the marabou and occur in S and SE Asia
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Word Origin for adjutant bird

so called for its supposedly military gait

Words nearby adjutant bird

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How to use adjutant bird in a sentence

  • Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?

    A Bayard From Bengal|Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee

  • A few days afterwards he was accompanying the king when an adjutant-bird was seen in a tree.

    Great African Travellers|W.H.G. Kingston

  • The adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture.

    Birds of the Plains|Douglas Dewar

  • I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.

    In the Eastern Seas|W.H.G. Kingston
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