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Definition of Hoatzin
1. Noun. Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
Generic synonyms: Gallinacean, Gallinaceous Bird
Group relationships: Genus Opisthocomus, Opisthocomus
Definition of Hoatzin
1. n. Same as Hoazin.
Definition of Hoatzin
1. Noun. A bird, ''Opisthocomus hoazin'', with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoatzin
1. a tropical bird [n -S or -ES]
Medical Definition of Hoatzin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoatzin
Literary usage of Hoatzin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1902)
"The body of the label on silicates is in pica Roman type, and the headings in
pica antique, The hoatzin is in long primer type, and the other labels in pica ..."
2. Twenty-five Years in British Guiana by Henry Kirke (1898)
"Equatorial zone—Tropical vegetation—Forests—Striking effects—Gardens in British
Guiana—Fauna—Shooting—Game bags—Muscovy ducks —hoatzin—Jaguars— ..."
3. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... and the hoatzin—Of Bonaparte's Gull —Classification of "Open" nests—Nests of
the Albatrosses—Of the Herons and Bitterns—Of the Spoonbills and Ibises—Of ..."
4. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1890)
"The hoatzin.—Tfos most curious of all living birds, the Opisthocomus cristatus,
commonly known in the colony as anna, stinking pheasant and Canje pheasant, ..."
5. Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to by Blair Niles, William Beebe (1910)
"Nest of a hoatzin in the Mucka-mucka on which these Birds feed 3°6 151. ...
(A) Female hoatzin flushed from her nest; the Male Bird approaching 3^9 153. ..."
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