adjutant
/ˈædʒʊtənt/noun
1
- a military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer副官。
1.1
- a person's assistant or deputy助手, 副手。
2
- （亦作adjutant stork或adjutant bird）a large black-and-white stork with a massive bill and a bare head and neck, found in India and SE Asia秃鹳。
2.1
- Genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae: two species.秃鹳属, 鹳科：2种。
派生词
adjutancy
noun词源
early 17th cent. （in the sense 'assistant， helper'）： from Latin adjutant- 'being of service to'， from adjutare, frequentative of adjuvare 'assist' （see ADJUVANT）.