Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

adjutant bird

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.11 in modern English

Syllables: ad-ju-tan-t bird
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

adjutant birds (plural)

Synonyms

adjutant adjutant stork leptoptilus dubius

Questions

What does adjutant bird mean?: Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, native to India and Southeast Asia.

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