| 单词 | adjutant stork |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadjutant stork adjutant stork n. the greater or (usually with distinguishing word) lesser adjutant (see sense A. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ciconiidae (stork) > leptoptilos dubius (adjutant) adjutant1798 adjutant bird1809 adjutant crane1815 adjutant stork1820 1820 W. Hamilton Geogr., Statist., & Hist. Descr. Hindostan I. 57 In their profession of scavengers, the kites and crows are assisted during the day by the voracious adjutant stork. 1931 Q. Rev. Biol. 6 93/1 The following are among the better known soaring birds: eagles, falcons, buzzards,..adjutant storks and albatrosses. 2006 E. M. Collingham Curry 109 If it had not been for the Indian shacks in the background, the adjutant storks gloomily surveying the scene from the rooftops, and the numerous Indian servants and hawkers milling about, the stranger might have thought he had arrived in Jane Austen's Bath. < as lemmas |
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