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Definition of Adjutant stork
1. Noun. Large Indian stork with a military gait.
Generic synonyms: Stork
Group relationships: Genus Leptoptilus, Leptoptilus
Definition of Adjutant stork
1. Noun. The marabou ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjutant Stork
Literary usage of Adjutant stork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneering on the Congo by William Holman Bentley (1900)
"We bought an adjutant stork from the natives; he was nearly four feet high, and
walked about our enclosures without any attempt to escape ; one of his wings ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... which includes the gfl adjutant stork of India, is found in the Pliocene
Siwaliks of O latter country, and another in the Middle Miocene of Bava™ while ..."
3. Zoology: A Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts by William Benjamin Carpenter (1848)
"... the same pairs of Storks will regularly return to the habitations they had
previously tenanted.—The Adjutant-Stork, or ..."
4. The Great Mountains and Forests of South America by Paul Fountain (1904)
"The colour of the plumage is white, and the bird reminded me strongly of the
adjutant stork of India. Of the many other birds seen on the upper reaches of ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the Brazilian bell-bird, the throat-bag of the adjutant stork, and the guiar
pouch of the bustard. The trachea or windpipe is strengthened by numerous ..."
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