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adjutant stork

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noun

a large Indian stork, Leptoptilus dubius, having a pinkish-brown neck and bill, a large naked pouch under the throat, and a military gait.

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Also called adjutant, adjutant bird .

Words nearby adjutant stork

adjustor, adjutancy, adjutant, adjutant bird, adjutant general, adjutant stork, adjuvant, ad kalendas Graecas, ADL, Adlai, adland

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How to use adjutant stork in a sentence

So different were they that Lucy Fisher, another friend, used to tease that "Doug had been brought by the stork."
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He looks like a stork that dropped a baby and broke it and is coming to explain to the parents.
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We just sing beautiful music, hold hands and voilà, a stork brings the baby from heaven.
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I always believed someone was going to leave a baby on my doorstep—like the stork.
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But the stork was cruel and would not heed him, and led Cedric a weary chase through the marshes and the brakes.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
Stuckup, great tall stork of a woman, that lords it over a man as though she was a goddess.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete|Gilbert Parker
Mr. Wright, my Adjutant, saw one strike in a puddle between him and myself as we marched at the head of the Regiment.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
"You may be thankful if you don't get those two young alligators in the other tank," said a gruff-voiced adjutant.
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That was a difficulty at first, as neither the adjutant's nor my book gave the French for bacon.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie