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adjutant bird

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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

adjutant bird, adjutant stork n

either of two large carrion-eating storks, Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus, which are closely related and similar to the marabou and occur in S and SE Asia

Etymology: so called for its supposedly military gait

'adjutant bird' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

adjutant - marabou

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