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adjutant bird
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 History and Origins
Origin of adjutant bird1
so called for its supposedly military gait
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Example Sentences
Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?
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A few days afterwards he was accompanying the king when an adjutant-bird was seen in a tree.
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The adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture.
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I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.
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