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adjutant birds

adjutant birds is the plural of adjutant bird.

Meaning of adjutant bird

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

Questions about adjutant birds

What is adjutant birds the plural of?
Adjutant birds is the plural of adjutant bird.

Words near adjutant birds in the dictionary

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

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