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adjutant bird

adjutant bird noun: either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.

Noun

adjutant bird (plural adjutant birds)

  1. Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.
    • When he recovered sufficiently to articulate, Bunson had stalked away, and Quin was regarding him benignly, like an adjutant bird who had just concluded an interesting experiment on a worm.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 98

Forms of adjutant bird

pluraladjutant birds

Questions about adjutant bird

What does adjutant bird mean?
Adjutant bird means either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.
What part of speech is adjutant bird?
Adjutant bird is a noun.
What is the plural of adjutant bird?
The plural of adjutant bird is adjutant birds.

Words near adjutant bird in the dictionary

  1. adjutage
  2. adjutages
  3. adjutancies
  4. adjutancy
  5. adjutant
  6. adjutant bird
  7. adjutant birds
  8. adjutant general
  9. adjutant generals
  10. adjutant stork
  11. adjutant storks

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