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Curassow

noun
1.
Large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food.





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"Curassow" Quotes from Famous Books



... range from Archidona to Para; the gallinaceous yet arboreal Ciganas; scarlet ibises, smaller, but more beautiful than their sacred cousins of the Nile; stilted flamingoes, whose awkwardness is atoned for by their brilliant red plumage; glossy black Mutums, or curassow turkeys; ghostly storks, white egrets, ash-colored herons, black ducks, barbets, kingfishers, sandpipers, gulls, plovers, woodpeckers, oreoles; tanagers, essentially a South American family, and, excepting ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton


Words linked to "Curassow" :   gallinacean, genus Crax, Crax, gallinaceous bird


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