Argala

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  • n. the adjutant bird
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The adjutant bird.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ornithology: The adjutant-bird, Ardea argala (Latham), now Leptoptilus argala, of India. A similar bird of Africa, Leptoptilus cruminiferus. Temminek. Properly called marabou. A generic name of both these birds. Hodgson, 1838. See adjutant-bird, marabou.
  • Word Usage
    "One of the distinctive characteristics of the adjutant, or "argala," as it is better known to the Indians, -- and one, too, of its ugliest"