adjutant

noun

• 1a military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer: he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force
• a person’s assistant or deputy:Hoare was his adjutant in all the talks with the government

• 2 (also adjutant stork or adjutant bird) a large black-and-white stork with a massive bill and a bare head and neck, found in India and SE Asia.

  • Genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae: two species