| 单词 | adjutant bird |
| 释义 | adjutant bird (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY adjutant bird: adjutant birds USAGE EXAMPLESMoreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl? Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho, A Bayard From Bengal—Being some acc...(2011) I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen. Kingston, William Henry Giles, In the Eastern Seas(2010) "`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. Churchill, Winston, Project Gutenberg Complete Works of...(2010) n large Indian stork with a military gait Syn|Hyper Leptoptilus dubius, adjutant, adjutant stork stork large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
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