adjutant bird
adjutant stork
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
Origin of adjutant bird
1so called for its supposedly military gait
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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 JabberjeeA few days afterwards he was accompanying the king when an adjutant-bird was seen in a tree.
Great African Travellers | W.H.G. KingstonThe adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture.
Birds of the Plains | Douglas DewarI 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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