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Definition of Stinkbird
1. Noun. Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
Exact synonyms: Hoactzin, Hoatzin, Opisthocomus Hoazin
Generic synonyms: Gallinacean, Gallinaceous Bird
Group relationships: Genus Opisthocomus, Opisthocomus
Generic synonyms: Gallinacean, Gallinaceous Bird
Group relationships: Genus Opisthocomus, Opisthocomus
Definition of Stinkbird
1. Noun. The hoatzin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinkbird
Literary usage of Stinkbird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "At You-all's House": A Missouri Nature Story by James Newton Baskett (1898)
"Shan called it a " stinkbird," with a hunter's contempt for anything not game
that balks his dog. Again, a meadow-lark had walked across the route, ..."
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