adjutant bird

English

Noun

adjutant bird (plural adjutant birds)

  1. (zoology) Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 98:
      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.
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