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Leptoptilus (gcide) | Leptoptilus \Leptoptilus\ n.
A genus of birds including the adjutant bird ({Leptoptilus
dubius}, also called adjutant stork) and marabous.
Syn: genus Leptoptilus.
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leptoptilus (wn) | Leptoptilus
n 1: adjutant birds and marabous [syn: Leptoptilus, {genus
Leptoptilus}] |
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Leptoptilus (gcide) | Leptoptilus \Leptoptilus\ n.
A genus of birds including the adjutant bird ({Leptoptilus
dubius}, also called adjutant stork) and marabous.
Syn: genus Leptoptilus.
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Leptoptilus crumeniferus (gcide) | Marabou \Mar`a*bou"\ (m[a^]r"[.a]b[=oo]"), n. [F.]
1. (Zool.) A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of
the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the
African species (Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn.
Leptoptilos crumenifer), whose downy under-wing feathers
are used to trim garments; called also marabout. The
Asiatic species (Leptoptilos dubius, or {Leptoptilos
argala}) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also
marabu.]
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2. One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a
mulatto and a griffe. [Louisiana] --Bartlett.
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3. A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but
capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin
fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the
feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name.
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Leptoptilus dubius (gcide) | Leptoptilus \Leptoptilus\ n.
A genus of birds including the adjutant bird ({Leptoptilus
dubius}, also called adjutant stork) and marabous.
Syn: genus Leptoptilus.
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genus leptoptilus (wn) | genus Leptoptilus
n 1: adjutant birds and marabous [syn: Leptoptilus, {genus
Leptoptilus}] |
leptoptilus crumeniferus (wn) | Leptoptilus crumeniferus
n 1: large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its
downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments [syn:
marabou, marabout, marabou stork, {Leptoptilus
crumeniferus}] |
leptoptilus dubius (wn) | Leptoptilus dubius
n 1: large Indian stork with a military gait [syn: {adjutant
bird}, adjutant, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius] |
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