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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



... a long soft whistle sounded in the bush ahead. Any Indian hunter hearing that sound would straightway have begun scanning the high branches, for the liquid call was that of the mutum, or curassow turkey. But the waiting trio knew it for Pedro's signal that all was clear. At once they slid their canoe to shore, lifted its bow to a firm grip on the clay, and, after plumbing the shadows, quietly advanced in ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel


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


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