Adjutant bird meaning

Noun: adjutant bird

Adjutant bird meaning:

• Large Indian stork with a military gait

Synonyms: adjutant, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius
Derived forms: adjutant birds

Quotations:

1. Mowbray Thompson – In that silence the angel of death brooded over many a sleeper there. The jackal took the opportunity offered to him to prowl among the animal remains around the intrenchment, without alarm from the guns; and daybreak disclosed to view hosts of adjutant birds and vultures gloating over their carnivorous breakfast. These are the only parties who have any cause to thank the Sepoys for the rebellion of 1857.
2. Hurry Bungsho – Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?
3. William Henry Giles – I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.
4. Winston Churchill – “Adjutant Bird,” Janet read presently from a legend on one of the compartments of a cage devoted to birds, and surveying the somewhat dissolute occupant.

Sample sentences:

1. Adjutant birds typically have white and black plumage.
2. This place was house for adjutant birds in the past.
3. The greater adjutant is a member of the stork family.