Adjutant bird

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    large Indian stork with a military gait wordnet

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"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."